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Free Astronomy tools for finding  objects in the sky:
CURRENT CONSTELLATION AND PLANET LOCATION SKY MAP OVER CENTRAL FLORIDA (STEREO PROJECTION), OTHER FLORIDA LOCATIONS LOOK VERY SIMILAR.  DRAG VIEW TO ROTATE.  Green line is North/South Meridian marker, other long arcing lines are the Ecliptic and planet orbits.
Worldwide Telescope opens in your browser w/HTML5, or even better, download the desktop version which lets you add new Solar System bodies from the Minor Planet Center, which will automatically retrieve it's orbital parameters if you right click the word "Sun" and select Add Minor Planet, then put in the new objects designation like the newly published in 2020 (but first observed in 2013) "2013 RE124" . 
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Sky Maps (PDF sky
maps each month)

SOLAR SYSTEM EXPLORATION TOOL BY NASA
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Stellarium Planetarium Software
Jupiter's Great Red Spot Transit Times 2021
PLANET RISE/TRANSIT/SET TIMES

Below you can scroll your mouse over the image zoom, or search ALADIN LITE which uses  "Aladin sky atlas" developed at CDS, Strasbourg Observatory, France.  The default location I've set is at the nebula M78 using the DSS2 survey.  You can select different surveys using the page-looking tab on the top left.  You can also enter a right ascension and declination of any part of the sky or enter the designation (like "M51" or "Castor" using the magnifier glass icon.  Solar system objects like planets, the Sun, comets and asteroid names do not work in this tool.

THE SKY AS IT APPEARS RIGHT NOW OVER CENTRAL FLORIDA,
OTHER FLORIDA LOCATIONS WILL APPEAR VERY SIMILAR. THE RED LINE IS THE ECLIPTIC (WHERE THE PLANETS TRAVEL.)

Below is the latest Sun image from today via the SDO AIA304 filter (which is the 304 Angstrom or 30.4 nanometer emission wavelength of the helium ion.) Images courtesy of NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams.
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Current image via NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite.  It shows sunspots when they are visible.
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