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 18976	8.0178	04h 03m 58s	+21° 04’ 15”
Star	HIP 19038	4.2432	04h 04m 41s	+22° 04’ 55”
Star	HIP 19054	8.9226	04h 04m 56s	+20° 51’ 23”
Star	HIP 19076	5.8304	04h 05m 20s	+22° 00’ 33”
Star	HIP 19093	8.2536	04h 05m 36s	+19° 57’ 18”
Star	HIP 19146	8.188	04h 06m 11s	+20° 40’ 05”
Star	HIP 19163	7.7456	04h 06m 34s	+21° 57’ 23”
Star	HIP 19216	8.6308	04h 07m 08s	+21° 15’ 46”
Star	HIP 19299	8.8482	04h 08m 14s	+22° 01’ 16”
Star	HIP 19308	7.7142	04h 08m 20s	+19° 44’ 15”
Star	HIP 19388	5.4014	04h 09m 09s	+19° 36’ 33”
Star	HIP 19558	8.4552	04h 11m 21s	+22° 03’ 40”
Star	HIP 19615	8.7322	04h 12m 11s	+21° 32’ 09”

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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