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):

Type	Name	Magnitude	Ar	Dec
Star	HIP 88893	8.1978	18h 08m 48s	+12° 27’ 56”
Star	HIP 88970	8.3624	18h 09m 36s	+11° 58’ 12”
Star	HIP 88891	8.6132	18h 08m 46s	+14° 24’ 22”
Star	HIP 89235	7.5288	18h 12m 35s	+12° 23’ 36”
Star	HIP 88862	6.3104	18h 08m 33s	+14° 17’ 04”
Star	HIP 89197	8.4664	18h 12m 11s	+13° 47’ 25”
Star	HIP 88814	6.6092	18h 07m 48s	+13° 04’ 15”
Star	HIP 88630	8.0044	18h 05m 44s	+13° 28’ 59”
Star	HIP 88931	7.5878	18h 09m 11s	+14° 01’ 33”
Star	HIP 89145	8.1044	18h 11m 38s	+12° 33’ 01”
Star	HIP 88938	8.3546	18h 09m 15s	+13° 29’ 06”
Star	HIP 89323	7.7352	18h 13m 34s	+13° 38’ 34”
Galaxy	NGC 6570	13.3	18h 11m 07s	+14° 05’ 35”

Additional resources

Additional Resources about Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks

• 15 Days Ephemerides
• Interactive Sky Map (Planetarium)
• Rise & Set Times
• Distance from Earth
• Light Curve
• Orbital Elements

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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