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 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 Venus (less than 1.5 degrees):

Type	Name	Magnitude	Ar	Dec
Star	HIP 61542	8.4822	12h 36m 34s	-06° 03’ 56”
Star	HIP 61687	8.3166	12h 38m 44s	-05° 19’ 38”
Star	HIP 61134	6.0786	12h 31m 38s	-05° 03’ 09”
Star	HIP 61685	6.4626	12h 38m 43s	-04° 22’ 24”
Star	HIP 61326	8.0174	12h 33m 55s	-06° 46’ 40”
Star	HIP 61346	8.3472	12h 34m 10s	-04° 26’ 47”
Star	HIP 61763	6.544	12h 39m 30s	-06° 06’ 02”
Star	HIP 61322	8.8946	12h 33m 48s	-05° 14’ 32”
Star	HIP 61558	5.8756	12h 36m 47s	-05° 49’ 54”
Star	HIP 60987	7.3072	12h 30m 01s	-06° 01’ 23”
Star	HIP 61400	7.9996	12h 34m 53s	-05° 09’ 16”
Star	HIP 61161	8.336	12h 31m 57s	-05° 47’ 20”
Galaxy	PGC 42298	14.0	12h 38m 58s	-04° 34’ 28”
Galaxy	PGC 41303	13.6	12h 30m 18s	-05° 57’ 50”
Galaxy	NGC 4593	11.9	12h 39m 39s	-05° 20’ 39”

Additional resources

Additional Resources about Venus

• 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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