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 69082	7.712	14h 08m 24s	-12° 33’ 55”
Star	HIP 68573	8.626	14h 02m 20s	-12° 02’ 13”
Star	HIP 68878	8.4844	14h 06m 12s	-11° 49’ 57”
Star	HIP 68400	7.5624	14h 00m 07s	-13° 28’ 00”
Star	HIP 68847	8.289	14h 05m 52s	-12° 42’ 11”
Star	HIP 68393	8.592	14h 00m 03s	-11° 47’ 07”
Star	HIP 68263	6.9394	13h 58m 26s	-12° 03’ 32”
Star	HIP 69054	7.5276	14h 08m 04s	-12° 55’ 41”
Star	HIP 68713	8.302	14h 04m 00s	-12° 45’ 09”
Star	HIP 68481	8.9994	14h 01m 11s	-11° 55’ 49”
Star	HIP 68735	7.9098	14h 04m 12s	-12° 07’ 47”

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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