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12P/Pons-Brooks live position and data

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 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 12P/Pons-Brooks (less than 1.5 degrees):

TypeNameMagnitudeArDec
StarHIP 873588.789617h 51m 01s+12° 12’ 48”
StarHIP 877018.117817h 54m 51s+12° 40’ 38”
StarHIP 876556.221817h 54m 14s+11° 07’ 51”
StarHIP 875708.373617h 53m 23s+10° 57’ 37”
StarHIP 873356.063617h 50m 43s+11° 56’ 47”
StarHIP 878378.08317h 56m 42s+11° 52’ 20”
StarHIP 877698.37517h 55m 45s+11° 48’ 14”
StarHIP 874157.675817h 51m 52s+12° 00’ 28”
StarHIP 874798.337617h 52m 25s+11° 59’ 28”
GalaxyUGC 1105713.717h 57m 14s+12° 10’ 45”

Additional resources

Additional Resources about Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks

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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