Object: 161P/Hartley-IRAS (open sky map)

RA 05h 49m 12s Dec -50° 18’ 26” Appar J2000

Mag: 23.46 (Estimated: JPL) Const: Pictor

Sun Dist: 786252151.06529 km [ km/s]
Earth Dist: 811693941.52353 km [ km/s]
Perihelion: 18 Dec 2026 08:56 UTC []

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161P/Hartley-IRAS Live Position Tracker

This page shows Comet 161P/Hartley-IRAS 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 in the background 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 161P/Hartley-IRAS (less than 1.5 degrees):

Type	Name	Magnitude	Ar	Dec
Star	HIP 27321	3.844	05h 47m 17s	-51° 04’ 00”
Star	HIP 26830	8.628	05h 41m 49s	-50° 00’ 16”
Star	HIP 26883	8.8872	05h 42m 27s	-50° 28’ 31”
Star	HIP 27572	7.0992	05h 50m 23s	-48° 59’ 11”
Star	HIP 27055	7.8208	05h 44m 15s	-49° 10’ 24”
Star	HIP 27237	8.3496	05h 46m 22s	-49° 16’ 53”
Star	HIP 26788	8.0244	05h 41m 23s	-50° 45’ 17”
Star	HIP 27367	8.9402	05h 47m 46s	-50° 02’ 37”
Star	HIP 27937	6.1106	05h 54m 41s	-49° 37’ 37”
Star	HIP 26975	7.6088	05h 43m 26s	-49° 50’ 32”
Star	HIP 27622	8.6908	05h 50m 53s	-50° 42’ 31”
Star	HIP 27760	8.2864	05h 52m 29s	-49° 05’ 03”
Star	HIP 27896	6.4328	05h 54m 10s	-50° 21’ 49”
Star	HIP 27408	7.1128	05h 48m 13s	-48° 55’ 06”
Star	HIP 27978	7.5508	05h 55m 00s	-50° 59’ 19”
Star	HIP 27995	8.3122	05h 55m 14s	-49° 38’ 19”
Star	HIP 27140	8.4564	05h 45m 15s	-50° 12’ 33”
Star	HIP 27647	8.3508	05h 51m 11s	-50° 15’ 24”
Star	HIP 27131	8.7826	05h 45m 11s	-50° 56’ 59”
Star	HIP 27271	8.4058	05h 46m 46s	-50° 51’ 17”
Star	HIP 26685	8.7656	05h 40m 16s	-49° 32’ 23”
Galaxy	NGC 2104	13.2	05h 47m 04s	-51° 33’ 06”

Additional resources

Astronomy databases

This online sky chart is created using the following astronomy databases and services:

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
The Hipparcos Star Catalogue, containing more than 100.000 bright stars
The PGC 2003 Catalogue, containing information about 1 million galaxies
The GSC 2.3 Catalogue, containing information about more than 2 billion stars and galaxies

Please see the acknowledgements section.

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