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 69572	7.7228	14h 14m 27s	-04° 47’ 08”
Star	HIP 69724	8.8488	14h 16m 20s	-04° 17’ 05”
Star	HIP 70138	8.7032	14h 21m 05s	-02° 29’ 50”
Star	HIP 69817	8.5692	14h 17m 20s	-04° 15’ 57”
Star	HIP 69789	7.6808	14h 17m 02s	-04° 19’ 43”
Star	HIP 69747	6.14	14h 16m 30s	-03° 11’ 46”
Star	HIP 70161	8.4758	14h 21m 18s	-04° 39’ 32”
Star	HIP 70016	7.4882	14h 19m 35s	-05° 09’ 03”
Star	HIP 69537	8.9066	14h 14m 05s	-03° 45’ 01”
Galaxy	NGC 5507	13.5	14h 13m 19s	-03° 08’ 57”
Galaxy	NGC 5506	12.8	14h 13m 14s	-03° 12’ 27”

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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