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 in the background 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).
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 19308 | 7.7142 | 04h 08m 20s | +19° 44’ 15” |
Star | HIP 19163 | 7.7456 | 04h 06m 34s | +21° 57’ 23” |
Star | HIP 19216 | 8.6308 | 04h 07m 08s | +21° 15’ 46” |
Star | HIP 19558 | 8.4552 | 04h 11m 21s | +22° 03’ 40” |
Star | HIP 19388 | 5.4014 | 04h 09m 09s | +19° 36’ 33” |
Star | HIP 19146 | 8.188 | 04h 06m 11s | +20° 40’ 05” |
Star | HIP 19870 | 7.746 | 04h 15m 42s | +20° 49’ 11” |
Star | HIP 19054 | 8.9226 | 04h 04m 56s | +20° 51’ 23” |
Star | HIP 19672 | 6.1376 | 04h 12m 51s | +22° 24’ 48” |
Star | HIP 19615 | 8.7322 | 04h 12m 11s | +21° 32’ 09” |
Star | HIP 19299 | 8.8482 | 04h 08m 14s | +22° 01’ 16” |
This online sky chart is created using the following astronomy databases and services:
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