16P/Brooks live position and data

This page shows Comet 16P/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 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 16P/Brooks (less than 1.5 degrees):

Type	Name	Magnitude	Ar	Dec
Star	HIP 53619	7.4854	10h 58m 11s	+09° 42’ 06”
Star	HIP 52966	8.9646	10h 49m 57s	+09° 49’ 26”
Star	HIP 53148	8.2868	10h 52m 25s	+08° 12’ 49”
Star	HIP 53440	8.2708	10h 55m 56s	+07° 40’ 47”
Star	HIP 53049	7.771	10h 51m 13s	+09° 13’ 29”
Star	HIP 53071	8.5018	10h 51m 28s	+07° 56’ 06”
Star	HIP 53117	8.1236	10h 52m 00s	+09° 03’ 41”
Star	HIP 53056	7.496	10h 51m 19s	+09° 08’ 56”
Star	HIP 53126	8.654	10h 52m 04s	+08° 51’ 10”
Galaxy	NGC 3433	12.5	10h 52m 03s	+10° 08’ 58”
Galaxy	NGC 3428	14.0	10h 51m 25s	+09° 17’ 03”
Galaxy	UGC 6062	13.7	10h 58m 37s	+09° 03’ 05”
Galaxy	NGC 3462	13.3	10h 55m 20s	+07° 41’ 44”

Additional resources

• 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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