Venus live position and data

This page shows Venus 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).

Current close conjunctions

List of bright objects (stars brighter than magnitude 9.0 and galaxies brighter than magmitude 14.0) close to Venus (less than 1.5 degrees):

Type	Name	Magnitude	Ar	Dec
Star	HIP 41431	0	08h 27m 00s	+21° 57’ 24”
Star	HIP 40920	8.0756	08h 21m 04s	+22° 01’ 54”
Star	HIP 40999	8.6412	08h 22m 01s	+23° 05’ 49”
Star	HIP 40781	7.8808	08h 19m 23s	+21° 15’ 26”
Star	HIP 41311	8.7266	08h 25m 44s	+21° 11’ 26”
Star	HIP 40984	8.2042	08h 21m 51s	+22° 57’ 10”
Star	HIP 40950	7.1932	08h 21m 28s	+21° 54’ 33”
Star	HIP 40807	8.1244	08h 19m 43s	+20° 55’ 05”
Star	HIP 40866	5.6888	08h 20m 20s	+20° 44’ 52”
Star	HIP 40696	8.6342	08h 18m 26s	+22° 13’ 13”
Star	HIP 41524	6.7622	08h 28m 07s	+21° 08’ 55”
Galaxy	NGC 2577	13.5	08h 22m 43s	+22° 33’ 11”
Galaxy	NGC 2563	13.3	08h 20m 35s	+21° 04’ 08”
Galaxy	NGC 2595	12.9	08h 27m 41s	+21° 28’ 42”
Galaxy	NGC 2565	13.4	08h 19m 48s	+22° 01’ 37”
Galaxy	NGC 2562	13.9	08h 20m 23s	+21° 07’ 55”
Galaxy	NGC 2582	13.9	08h 25m 12s	+20° 20’ 07”

Additional resources

• 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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