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 41824 | 0 | 08h 31m 37s | +19° 23’ 40” |
Star | HIP 42164 | 7.4694 | 08h 35m 45s | +19° 46’ 16” |
Star | HIP 41727 | 8.4854 | 08h 30m 31s | +18° 56’ 34” |
Star | HIP 42327 | 6.7358 | 08h 37m 46s | +19° 16’ 02” |
Star | HIP 41822 | 5.1934 | 08h 31m 35s | +18° 05’ 40” |
Star | HIP 42284 | 8.5352 | 08h 37m 18s | +18° 52’ 11” |
Star | HIP 41440 | 8.307 | 08h 27m 04s | +19° 15’ 13” |
Star | HIP 42058 | 7.2928 | 08h 34m 23s | +18° 23’ 51” |
Star | HIP 41903 | 8.3436 | 08h 32m 39s | +20° 08’ 49” |
Star | HIP 42133 | 6.5114 | 08h 35m 19s | +19° 35’ 24” |
Star | HIP 41833 | 6.326 | 08h 31m 41s | +18° 59’ 16” |
Star | HIP 42247 | 8.5924 | 08h 36m 48s | +18° 52’ 58” |
Star | HIP 41765 | 7.3978 | 08h 31m 00s | +18° 58’ 06” |
Star | HIP 42005 | 8.9578 | 08h 33m 41s | +17° 38’ 45” |
Star | HIP 41505 | 7.8972 | 08h 27m 53s | +18° 04’ 07” |
This online sky chart is created using the following astronomy databases and services: