199P/Shoemaker live position and data

This page shows Comet 199P/Shoemaker 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 199P/Shoemaker (less than 1.5 degrees):

Type	Name	Magnitude	Ar	Dec
Star	HIP 90684	0	18h 30m 10s	-19° 51’ 05”
Star	HIP 90700	0	18h 30m 18s	-21° 11’ 57”
Star	HIP 90710	0	18h 30m 26s	-20° 57’ 06”
Star	HIP 90289	4.722	18h 25m 21s	-20° 32’ 29”
Star	HIP 91132	6.4542	18h 35m 21s	-20° 50’ 25”
Star	HIP 90130	7.6788	18h 23m 34s	-21° 39’ 50”
Star	HIP 90721	7.9026	18h 30m 33s	-20° 17’ 14”
Star	HIP 90113	7.4626	18h 23m 19s	-20° 39’ 13”
Star	HIP 90811	8.104	18h 31m 28s	-21° 14’ 57”
Star	HIP 90516	8.569	18h 28m 10s	-21° 14’ 19”
Star	HIP 90515	8.9148	18h 28m 08s	-20° 48’ 06”
Star	HIP 90978	7.9368	18h 33m 28s	-20° 22’ 05”

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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