Object: 12P/Pons-Brooks (open sky map)

RA 15h 34m 39s Dec -44° 58’ 14” Appar J2000

Mag: 19.37 (Estimated: JPL) Const: Lupus

Sun Dist: 811850892.8138 km [ km/s]
Earth Dist: 698724266.38284 km [ km/s]
Perihelion: 18 Jul 2095 04:07 UTC []

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12P/Pons-Brooks Live Position Tracker

This page shows Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks 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).

Current close conjunctions

List of bright objects (stars brighter than magnitude 9.0 and galaxies brighter than magmitude 14.0) close to Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks (less than 1.5 degrees):

Type	Name	Magnitude	Ar	Dec
Star	HIP 75745	0	15h 28m 27s	-43° 59’ 41”
Star	HIP 76415	7.2654	15h 36m 26s	-44° 00’ 37”
Star	HIP 76461	7.9842	15h 36m 55s	-46° 09’ 04”
Star	HIP 76760	8.06	15h 40m 23s	-44° 14’ 48”
Star	HIP 76730	7.2664	15h 40m 09s	-45° 01’ 16”
Star	HIP 75654	8.722	15h 27m 22s	-45° 28’ 03”
Star	HIP 76073	6.8118	15h 32m 13s	-45° 04’ 03”
Star	HIP 75613	7.7362	15h 26m 57s	-44° 06’ 27”
Star	HIP 76281	8.8376	15h 34m 51s	-45° 38’ 47”
Star	HIP 76076	7.496	15h 32m 15s	-44° 24’ 26”
Star	HIP 75952	8.4118	15h 30m 45s	-45° 42’ 57”
Star	HIP 75585	8.7012	15h 26m 30s	-44° 50’ 52”
Star	HIP 76397	5.2842	15h 36m 12s	-44° 23’ 48”
Star	HIP 76213	8.9308	15h 34m 05s	-43° 43’ 32”
Star	HIP 75967	7.4248	15h 30m 51s	-43° 51’ 55”
Star	HIP 76054	8.6648	15h 31m 55s	-43° 39’ 52”
Star	HIP 75557	8.7368	15h 26m 06s	-44° 52’ 05”
Star	HIP 76799	6.8658	15h 40m 51s	-44° 37’ 21”
Star	HIP 76829	4.6126	15h 41m 11s	-44° 39’ 38”
Star	HIP 76524	8.1424	15h 37m 41s	-45° 42’ 03”
Star	HIP 76301	7.8906	15h 35m 11s	-43° 50’ 20”
Star	HIP 76371	4.4906	15h 35m 53s	-44° 57’ 30”
Star	HIP 76606	6.9762	15h 38m 41s	-45° 42’ 31”
Star	HIP 75957	7.4438	15h 30m 48s	-45° 25’ 27”
Star	HIP 75594	7.4958	15h 26m 41s	-45° 30’ 47”
Star	HIP 76762	6.9844	15h 40m 24s	-44° 17’ 18”
Star	HIP 75771	7.7472	15h 28m 45s	-44° 53’ 34”

Additional resources

Astronomy databases

This online sky chart is created using the following astronomy databases and services:

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
The Hipparcos Star Catalogue, containing more than 100.000 bright stars
The PGC 2003 Catalogue, containing information about 1 million galaxies
The GSC 2.3 Catalogue, containing information about more than 2 billion stars and galaxies

Please see the acknowledgements section.

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