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 110786	6.9596	22h 26m 41s	-11° 13’ 41”
Star	HIP 110979	7.6304	22h 29m 04s	-09° 44’ 27”
Star	HIP 110077	8.7364	22h 17m 50s	-09° 44’ 30”
Star	HIP 110580	7.013	22h 24m 07s	-10° 11’ 51”
Star	HIP 110338	7.0754	22h 20m 51s	-08° 45’ 55”
Star	HIP 110974	8.5882	22h 29m 02s	-09° 56’ 08”
Star	HIP 110223	8.4878	22h 19m 36s	-09° 48’ 03”
Star	HIP 110439	7.5968	22h 22m 11s	-10° 50’ 52”
Star	HIP 110193	8.5608	22h 19m 17s	-10° 47’ 25”
Star	HIP 110607	8.3094	22h 24m 28s	-09° 48’ 00”

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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