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 105498	0	21h 22m 00s	-15° 09’ 32”
Star	HIP 105256	6.8002	21h 19m 14s	-16° 10’ 46”
Star	HIP 105481	7.3758	21h 21m 51s	-16° 16’ 24”
Star	HIP 104974	5.178	21h 15m 44s	-15° 10’ 17”
Star	HIP 105519	8.0246	21h 22m 16s	-14° 55’ 10”
Star	HIP 104956	8.3506	21h 15m 34s	-16° 05’ 28”
Star	HIP 104918	8.155	21h 15m 10s	-15° 07’ 31”
Star	HIP 105474	8.3274	21h 21m 48s	-15° 58’ 37”
Star	HIP 105684	8.7108	21h 24m 20s	-16° 03’ 43”
Star	HIP 105131	8.3564	21h 17m 51s	-15° 53’ 27”
Star	HIP 105515	4.2046	21h 22m 14s	-16° 50’ 04”
Star	HIP 104922	8.9186	21h 15m 11s	-15° 44’ 27”
Star	HIP 105042	8.0844	21h 16m 35s	-14° 49’ 23”

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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