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 90265	0	18h 25m 04s	+24° 38’ 08”
Star	HIP 90120	8.374	18h 23m 25s	+23° 27’ 18”
Star	HIP 89836	8.7178	18h 19m 57s	+23° 40’ 16”
Star	HIP 89491	8.6048	18h 15m 45s	+23° 59’ 45”
Star	HIP 89778	8.0802	18h 19m 17s	+23° 24’ 46”
Star	HIP 89994	8.8474	18h 21m 44s	+23° 55’ 49”
Star	HIP 90023	5.2654	18h 22m 08s	+23° 17’ 05”
Star	HIP 89847	8.6932	18h 20m 06s	+25° 31’ 52”
Star	HIP 89722	8.5138	18h 18m 38s	+23° 34’ 08”
Star	HIP 90129	8.8578	18h 23m 34s	+25° 33’ 58”
Star	HIP 89683	6.301	18h 18m 07s	+23° 17’ 48”
Star	HIP 90143	6.9002	18h 23m 46s	+23° 40’ 57”
Star	HIP 89561	7.215	18h 16m 31s	+23° 23’ 54”
Star	HIP 89801	8.8622	18h 19m 37s	+22° 57’ 46”
Star	HIP 90385	7.846	18h 26m 34s	+24° 22’ 12”
Star	HIP 89773	5.1306	18h 19m 10s	+24° 26’ 45”
Star	HIP 89975	6.988	18h 21m 27s	+25° 03’ 24”
Star	HIP 89706	7.441	18h 18m 29s	+24° 26’ 20”
Star	HIP 89696	8.485	18h 18m 19s	+25° 19’ 48”
Galaxy	NGC 6599	13.6	18h 15m 42s	+24° 54’ 43”

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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