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 14183	8.9118	03h 02m 53s	+17° 33’ 56”
Star	HIP 14683	8.4678	03h 09m 42s	+17° 39’ 39”
Star	HIP 14021	6.7828	03h 00m 31s	+18° 00’ 18”
Star	HIP 14567	8.2672	03h 08m 05s	+16° 55’ 31”
Star	HIP 14514	6.1352	03h 07m 25s	+17° 52’ 47”
Star	HIP 14403	8.4852	03h 05m 47s	+18° 10’ 47”
Star	HIP 14098	8.2028	03h 01m 50s	+16° 31’ 05”
Star	HIP 14682	7.586	03h 09m 40s	+17° 15’ 39”
Star	HIP 13870	8.5468	02h 58m 38s	+17° 40’ 36”
Star	HIP 14679	8.7698	03h 09m 37s	+16° 54’ 17”
Star	HIP 14735	7.6946	03h 10m 17s	+16° 48’ 48”
Star	HIP 14569	7.6398	03h 08m 06s	+17° 01’ 38”
Star	HIP 14089	8.4814	03h 01m 40s	+16° 18’ 55”

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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