226P/Pigott-LINEAR-Kowalski live position and data

This page shows Comet 226P/Pigott-LINEAR-Kowalski 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 226P/Pigott-LINEAR-Kowalski (less than 1.5 degrees):

Type	Name	Magnitude	Ar	Dec
Star	HIP 73310	5.7264	14h 58m 53s	-11° 08’ 37”
Star	HIP 73615	7.5106	15h 02m 51s	-10° 23’ 32”
Star	HIP 73249	6.6082	14h 58m 13s	-11° 09’ 17”
Star	HIP 73445	7.9252	15h 00m 31s	-11° 52’ 27”
Star	HIP 73133	5.3214	14h 56m 46s	-11° 24’ 35”
Star	HIP 73031	8.0032	14h 55m 31s	-10° 16’ 53”
Star	HIP 73132	8.9894	14h 56m 45s	-09° 53’ 10”
Star	HIP 73729	8.0508	15h 04m 17s	-11° 01’ 29”

Additional resources

Additional Resources about Comet 226P/Pigott-LINEAR-Kowalski

• 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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