Object: 242P/Spahr (open sky map)

RA 06h 27m 10s Dec -02° 58’ 53” Appar J2000

Mag: 19.06 (Estimated: JPL) Const: Monoceros

Sun Dist: 609690451.6264 km [ km/s]
Earth Dist: 738444736.07144 km [ km/s]
Perihelion: 20 Oct 2025 18:29 UTC []

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242P/Spahr Live Position Tracker

This page shows Comet 242P/Spahr 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 242P/Spahr (less than 1.5 degrees):

Type	Name	Magnitude	Ar	Dec
Star	HIP 30920	0	06h 29m 22s	-02° 48’ 44”
Star	HIP 30351	6.5588	06h 23m 01s	-03° 16’ 37”
Star	HIP 30636	8.756	06h 26m 19s	-03° 35’ 05”
Star	HIP 30627	6.3222	06h 26m 09s	-03° 30’ 57”
Star	HIP 30266	8.5476	06h 22m 01s	-02° 01’ 45”
Star	HIP 30575	6.5502	06h 25m 34s	-02° 59’ 29”
Star	HIP 30938	7.1022	06h 29m 36s	-03° 33’ 05”
Star	HIP 31040	7.5404	06h 30m 47s	-03° 42’ 47”
Star	HIP 30754	7.83	06h 27m 45s	-02° 39’ 35”
Star	HIP 31010	6.8578	06h 30m 26s	-03° 01’ 19”
Star	HIP 30326	7.3596	06h 22m 43s	-02° 11’ 43”
Star	HIP 30093	4.7562	06h 19m 59s	-02° 56’ 40”
Star	HIP 30666	5.8656	06h 26m 39s	-01° 30’ 26”
Star	HIP 30181	7.8062	06h 21m 00s	-03° 30’ 11”
Star	HIP 30843	7.8954	06h 28m 39s	-03° 47’ 04”
Star	HIP 30356	7.1934	06h 23m 06s	-03° 30’ 56”
Star	HIP 30871	7.8652	06h 28m 51s	-02° 30’ 34”
Star	HIP 30611	8.2916	06h 25m 58s	-01° 48’ 48”
Star	HIP 30595	6.2258	06h 25m 47s	-03° 53’ 20”
Star	HIP 30700	6.497	06h 27m 00s	-04° 21’ 20”

Additional resources

Astronomy databases

This online sky chart is created using the following astronomy databases and services:

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
The Hipparcos Star Catalogue, containing more than 100.000 bright stars
The PGC 2003 Catalogue, containing information about 1 million galaxies
The GSC 2.3 Catalogue, containing information about more than 2 billion stars and galaxies

Please see the acknowledgements section.

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