51P/Harrington Real Time Tracker |
Right Ascension: 8.211175
Declination: 23.780666 (J2000) Magnitude: 25.63 (Estimated: JPL) Constellation: Cancer
Sun Distance: 663107773 km [ km/s]
Earth Distance: 717849246 km [ km/s]
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This page shows Comet 51P/Harrington 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 Comet 51P/Harrington (less than 1.5 degrees):
Type | Name | Magnitude | Ar | Dec |
Star | HIP 40157 | 8.7142 | 08h 12m 04s | +25° 10’ 49” |
Star | HIP 39811 | 8.8712 | 08h 08m 06s | +24° 42’ 54” |
Star | HIP 40102 | 8.582 | 08h 11m 30s | +23° 28’ 56” |
Star | HIP 39788 | 8.8302 | 08h 07m 50s | +22° 46’ 57” |
Star | HIP 40293 | 6.5448 | 08h 13m 41s | +23° 08’ 15” |
Star | HIP 39790 | 7.937 | 08h 07m 51s | +24° 01’ 05” |
Star | HIP 39941 | 7.174 | 08h 09m 24s | +24° 49’ 34” |
Star | HIP 40388 | 8.4992 | 08h 14m 43s | +24° 44’ 05” |
Star | HIP 39686 | 8.89 | 08h 06m 36s | +24° 08’ 48” |
Galaxy | NGC 2535 | 13.3 | 08h 11m 13s | +25° 12’ 21” |
Galaxy | NGC 2554 | 12.9 | 08h 17m 53s | +23° 28’ 15” |
This online sky chart is created using the following astronomy databases and services: