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104P/Kowal 2 live position and data

This page shows Comet 104P/Kowal 2 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 Comet 104P/Kowal 2 (less than 1.5 degrees):

TypeNameMagnitudeArDec
StarHIP 84893017h 21m 00s-21° 06’ 44”
StarHIP 850807.997217h 23m 16s-19° 26’ 55”
StarHIP 848097.991817h 20m 01s-19° 58’ 52”
StarHIP 850237.869817h 22m 41s-20° 13’ 33”
StarHIP 847198.794417h 19m 02s-20° 34’ 06”
StarHIP 848566.45317h 20m 34s-19° 20’ 00”
StarHIP 847038.58817h 18m 52s-20° 29’ 57”
StarHIP 848088.834417h 20m 00s-19° 00’ 37”
StarHIP 843667.527217h 14m 53s-20° 58’ 10”
StarHIP 843678.148617h 14m 53s-19° 51’ 48”
StarHIP 850177.77817h 22m 34s-19° 36’ 57”
StarHIP 846938.461217h 18m 48s-20° 38’ 30”
StarHIP 849586.856417h 21m 51s-20° 34’ 09”
StarHIP 850537.712817h 22m 56s-20° 12’ 54”

Additional resources

Additional Resources about Comet 104P/Kowal 2

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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