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 57548	0	11h 47m 44s	+00° 48’ 27”
Star	HIP 57629	6.0992	11h 49m 01s	-00° 19’ 07”
Star	HIP 57757	3.5502	11h 50m 41s	+01° 45’ 55”
Star	HIP 58002	6.2886	11h 53m 50s	+00° 33’ 07”
Star	HIP 58105	8.3154	11h 55m 00s	-00° 33’ 22”
Star	HIP 58111	8.1216	11h 55m 03s	+01° 19’ 01”
Star	HIP 58114	0	11h 55m 07s	+00° 58’ 25”
Star	HIP 58133	7.1162	11h 55m 23s	+01° 05’ 45”
Star	HIP 58375	7.2948	11h 58m 12s	+00° 52’ 09”
Star	HIP 58445	6.05	11h 59m 03s	+00° 31’ 50”
Galaxy	IC 745	13.9	11h 54m 12s	+00° 08’ 11”
Galaxy	UGC 6903	13.5	11h 55m 36s	+01° 14’ 03”

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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