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252P/LINEAR live position and data

This page shows Comet 252P/LINEAR 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 252P/LINEAR (less than 1.5 degrees):

TypeNameMagnitudeArDec
StarHIP 1133918.43722h 57m 52s-03° 39’ 14”
StarHIP 1134216.108822h 58m 15s-02° 23’ 43”
StarHIP 1135477.690822h 59m 49s-02° 26’ 23”
StarHIP 1131018.698422h 54m 17s-02° 51’ 25”
StarHIP 1133557.689222h 57m 25s-03° 09’ 25”
StarHIP 1136865.844823h 01m 31s-04° 42’ 41”
StarHIP 1137277.456223h 01m 55s-02° 41’ 09”
StarHIP 1137187.378423h 01m 51s-03° 50’ 53”
StarHIP 1133038.314622h 56m 43s-03° 31’ 36”
StarHIP 1137408.726623h 02m 05s-03° 51’ 01”
StarHIP 1133316.59522h 57m 06s-03° 14’ 42”
StarHIP 1135237.65822h 59m 29s-02° 53’ 07”
StarHIP 1133456.22222h 57m 17s-04° 48’ 36”
StarHIP 1136118.643823h 00m 38s-04° 33’ 10”
StarHIP 1134408.6122h 58m 30s-04° 30’ 07”
StarHIP 1135558.950822h 59m 58s-02° 51’ 24”
StarHIP 1135378.1422h 59m 41s-04° 21’ 51”
GalaxyPGC 7010413.522h 57m 26s-02° 30’ 47”
GalaxyPGC 7012713.722h 58m 02s-03° 46’ 14”
GalaxyPGC 7013013.822h 58m 07s-03° 47’ 22”

Additional resources

Additional Resources about Comet 252P/LINEAR

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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