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 86608	8.516	17h 41m 55s	+21° 07’ 44”
Star	HIP 86634	8.162	17h 42m 06s	+20° 09’ 58”
Star	HIP 87222	8.0738	17h 49m 11s	+20° 11’ 49”
Star	HIP 87158	5.602	17h 48m 24s	+20° 33’ 55”
Star	HIP 86596	6.6992	17h 41m 47s	+21° 30’ 06”
Star	HIP 86576	7.8072	17h 41m 32s	+19° 08’ 50”
Star	HIP 86743	8.8822	17h 43m 29s	+19° 32’ 48”
Star	HIP 86918	8.7928	17h 45m 36s	+19° 43’ 31”
Star	HIP 86722	7.4352	17h 43m 15s	+21° 36’ 38”
Star	HIP 87178	8.0186	17h 48m 39s	+21° 04’ 48”
Star	HIP 86727	8.0496	17h 43m 18s	+18° 49’ 26”
Star	HIP 87245	7.3162	17h 49m 34s	+20° 38’ 14”
Star	HIP 86656	8.1022	17h 42m 20s	+19° 37’ 09”
Star	HIP 86828	8.5828	17h 44m 32s	+18° 59’ 31”
Star	HIP 86319	8.565	17h 38m 14s	+20° 33’ 08”
Star	HIP 86738	8.2556	17h 43m 25s	+21° 39’ 43”
Star	HIP 86882	8.0516	17h 45m 02s	+19° 17’ 25”
Star	HIP 87041	8.7368	17h 47m 07s	+19° 28’ 10”

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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