This page shows Comet 116P/Wild 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 116P/Wild (less than 1.5 degrees):
Type | Name | Magnitude | Ar | Dec |
Star | HIP 6040 | 7.5468 | 01h 17m 35s | +05° 53’ 03” |
Star | HIP 5743 | 6.1846 | 01h 13m 45s | +07° 34’ 42” |
Star | HIP 5511 | 8.5544 | 01h 10m 34s | +06° 45’ 02” |
Star | HIP 5884 | 7.5052 | 01h 15m 33s | +06° 57’ 22” |
Star | HIP 5824 | 5.9314 | 01h 14m 42s | +06° 59’ 42” |
Star | HIP 5382 | 8.7246 | 01h 08m 51s | +07° 31’ 33” |
Star | HIP 5980 | 8.9696 | 01h 16m 55s | +06° 48’ 41” |
Star | HIP 5655 | 8.4396 | 01h 12m 39s | +06° 35’ 36” |
Star | HIP 5737 | 5.176 | 01h 13m 43s | +07° 34’ 31” |
Galaxy | NGC 437 | 13.9 | 01h 14m 21s | +05° 55’ 32” |
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