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 89862	7.7636	18h 20m 18s	+21° 04’ 24”
Star	HIP 90077	7.0396	18h 22m 56s	+20° 57’ 49”
Star	HIP 90424	8.5256	18h 26m 59s	+20° 11’ 38”
Star	HIP 90176	6.7224	18h 24m 05s	+20° 27’ 08”
Star	HIP 90363	7.5598	18h 26m 20s	+20° 28’ 42”
Star	HIP 90729	6.4062	18h 30m 41s	+20° 48’ 56”
Star	HIP 90357	8.4462	18h 26m 15s	+18° 52’ 09”
Star	HIP 89942	8.4104	18h 21m 06s	+19° 55’ 19”
Star	HIP 90076	7.9596	18h 22m 55s	+19° 08’ 57”
Star	HIP 90364	7.9436	18h 26m 21s	+19° 10’ 52”
Star	HIP 90607	8.8468	18h 29m 20s	+19° 46’ 31”
Star	HIP 90338	7.6668	18h 25m 56s	+21° 36’ 21”
Star	HIP 89885	8.683	18h 20m 27s	+20° 55’ 08”
Star	HIP 89941	7.471	18h 21m 06s	+20° 56’ 05”
Star	HIP 90479	7.3838	18h 27m 43s	+19° 17’ 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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