Sun live position and data

This page shows The Sun location and other relevant astronomical data in real time. The celestial coordinates, magnitude, distances and speed are updated in real time and are computed using high quality data sets provided by the JPL Horizons ephemeris service (see acknowledgements for details). The sky map shown below represents a rectangular portion of the sky 60x40 arcminutes wide. By comparison the diameter of the full Moon is about 30 arcmins, so the full horizontal extent of the map is approximately 2 full Moons wide. Depending on the device you are using, the map can be dragged horizondally or vertically using the mouse or touchscreen. The deep sky image in the background is provided by the Digitized Sky Survey (acknowledgements).

Current close conjunctions

List of bright objects (stars brighter than magnitude 9.0 and galaxies brighter than magmitude 14.0) close to The Sun (less than 1.5 degrees):

Type	Name	Magnitude	Ar	Dec
Star	HIP 17408	6.0394	03h 43m 47s	+19° 39’ 54”
Star	HIP 17026	6.4776	03h 39m 00s	+20° 54’ 57”
Star	HIP 17503	8.4302	03h 44m 52s	+19° 49’ 50”
Star	HIP 16896	8.6874	03h 37m 22s	+18° 35’ 48”
Star	HIP 16813	7.4364	03h 36m 24s	+20° 04’ 03”
Star	HIP 16737	7.4164	03h 35m 18s	+18° 54’ 11”
Star	HIP 17076	8.1554	03h 39m 33s	+18° 23’ 07”
Star	HIP 16551	8.0856	03h 33m 07s	+19° 22’ 59”
Star	HIP 16808	8.3378	03h 36m 21s	+19° 33’ 33”
Star	HIP 16701	8.5302	03h 34m 56s	+19° 48’ 36”
Star	HIP 17309	5.6836	03h 42m 18s	+19° 42’ 01”
Star	HIP 16662	7.9838	03h 34m 25s	+20° 22’ 26”
Star	HIP 16811	8.6296	03h 36m 23s	+18° 21’ 43”
Star	HIP 17234	8.103	03h 41m 26s	+19° 23’ 18”
Star	HIP 17325	8.3988	03h 42m 29s	+20° 09’ 00”
Star	HIP 16961	7.6644	03h 38m 10s	+19° 21’ 37”

Additional resources

Additional Resources about The Sun

• Sunspots Today
• 15 Days Ephemerides
• Interactive Sky Map (Planetarium)
• Rise & Set Times
• Distance from Earth
• Light Curve

Astronomy databases

This online sky chart is created using the following astronomy databases and services:

1. The Digitized Sky Survey, a photographic survey of the whole sky created using images from different telescopes, including the Oschin Schmidt Telescope on Palomar Mountain
2. The Hipparcos Star Catalogue, containing more than 100.000 bright stars
3. The PGC 2003 Catalogue, containing information about 1 million galaxies
4. The GSC 2.3 Catalogue, containing information about more than 2 billion stars and galaxies

Please see the acknowledgements section.

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