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 86950	0	17h 46m 01s	+32° 00’ 43”
Star	HIP 86723	7.7248	17h 43m 15s	+32° 59’ 03”
Star	HIP 87152	8.1476	17h 48m 20s	+33° 48’ 01”
Star	HIP 87037	8.9874	17h 47m 03s	+33° 38’ 16”
Star	HIP 87123	8.243	17h 48m 01s	+32° 39’ 20”
Star	HIP 87577	8.1642	17h 53m 27s	+32° 22’ 04”
Star	HIP 86824	8.1792	17h 44m 27s	+31° 39’ 40”
Star	HIP 87231	8.2444	17h 49m 24s	+33° 11’ 22”
Star	HIP 87459	7.1866	17h 52m 13s	+32° 00’ 50”
Star	HIP 86808	6.9934	17h 44m 17s	+33° 13’ 34”
Star	HIP 86925	6.2436	17h 45m 40s	+31° 30’ 16”
Galaxy	NGC 6485	14.0	17h 51m 52s	+31° 27’ 47”

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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