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 99314	7.4316	20h 09m 33s	-20° 35’ 36”
Star	HIP 100000	7.766	20h 17m 15s	-19° 57’ 38”
Star	HIP 100107	8.9426	20h 18m 28s	-19° 17’ 28”
Star	HIP 99501	8.4568	20h 11m 35s	-20° 12’ 59”
Star	HIP 100290	6.8	20h 20m 28s	-19° 38’ 49”
Star	HIP 99391	7.2266	20h 10m 25s	-19° 22’ 59”
Star	HIP 100216	7.6078	20h 19m 33s	-19° 54’ 45”
Star	HIP 99782	7.48	20h 14m 42s	-19° 12’ 25”
Star	HIP 99730	8.678	20h 14m 10s	-20° 14’ 24”
Star	HIP 99519	8.5296	20h 11m 48s	-20° 13’ 51”
Star	HIP 99460	7.6624	20h 11m 11s	-20° 15’ 54”
Star	HIP 99385	8.8272	20h 10m 19s	-20° 29’ 33”
Star	HIP 100195	5.1294	20h 19m 23s	-19° 07’ 06”
Star	HIP 99984	7.4004	20h 17m 00s	-18° 25’ 53”

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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