This page shows Asteroid 1979 XB 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).
List of bright objects (stars brighter than magnitude 9.0 and galaxies brighter than magmitude 14.0) close to Asteroid 1979 XB (less than 1.5 degrees):
Type | Name | Magnitude | Ar | Dec |
Star | HIP 7749 | 7.2642 | 01h 39m 45s | -17° 33’ 01” |
Star | HIP 7188 | 7.4324 | 01h 32m 36s | -18° 58’ 36” |
Star | HIP 7150 | 8.457 | 01h 32m 09s | -17° 31’ 55” |
Star | HIP 7089 | 8.6566 | 01h 31m 18s | -17° 41’ 07” |
Star | HIP 7212 | 8.6944 | 01h 32m 53s | -17° 36’ 42” |
Star | HIP 7158 | 8.494 | 01h 32m 16s | -18° 33’ 57” |
Star | HIP 7190 | 8.1776 | 01h 32m 37s | -16° 08’ 54” |
Star | HIP 6857 | 8.684 | 01h 28m 11s | -18° 03’ 43” |
Star | HIP 6849 | 7.3334 | 01h 28m 05s | -17° 15’ 41” |
Star | HIP 7718 | 7.616 | 01h 39m 21s | -17° 47’ 36” |
Star | HIP 7431 | 8.1696 | 01h 35m 44s | -17° 18’ 11” |
Star | HIP 6909 | 6.6254 | 01h 28m 57s | -17° 56’ 14” |
Star | HIP 7105 | 7.965 | 01h 31m 33s | -16° 46’ 15” |
Star | HIP 7385 | 8.7008 | 01h 35m 09s | -18° 29’ 31” |
Star | HIP 7446 | 7.0996 | 01h 35m 52s | -17° 31’ 55” |
Star | HIP 7135 | 8.8432 | 01h 31m 55s | -17° 42’ 05” |
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