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 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 226P/Pigott-LINEAR-Kowalski (less than 1.5 degrees):

Type	Name	Magnitude	Ar	Dec
Star	HIP 3921	0	00h 50m 20s	-50° 00’ 21”
Star	HIP 3949	5.198	00h 50m 41s	-50° 59’ 12”
Star	HIP 4128	8.0886	00h 52m 52s	-50° 27’ 42”
Star	HIP 3195	8.7352	00h 40m 43s	-49° 35’ 30”
Star	HIP 3048	8.6782	00h 38m 44s	-49° 29’ 58”
Star	HIP 4035	8.6644	00h 51m 44s	-50° 09’ 08”
Star	HIP 3459	6.853	00h 44m 14s	-49° 23’ 09”
Star	HIP 3548	7.5842	00h 45m 20s	-48° 50’ 10”
Star	HIP 3547	8.8598	00h 45m 19s	-50° 37’ 37”
Star	HIP 3471	7.7046	00h 44m 21s	-49° 42’ 23”
Star	HIP 3422	8.638	00h 43m 35s	-50° 58’ 35”
Star	HIP 2993	7.954	00h 38m 02s	-50° 44’ 02”
Galaxy	NGC 238	13.2	00h 43m 25s	-50° 11’ 04”

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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