Sun Dist: 745462263.63639 km [ km/s]
Earth Dist: 593617367.07611 km [ km/s] Perihelion: 10 Jan 2012 15:28 UTC [] |
This page shows Comet 255P/Levy 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).
List of bright objects (stars brighter than magnitude 9.0 and galaxies brighter than magmitude 14.0) close to Comet 255P/Levy (less than 1.5 degrees):
Type | Name | Magnitude | Ar | Dec |
Star | HIP 94062 | 6.9316 | 19h 08m 57s | -18° 40’ 57” |
Star | HIP 94320 | 8.2732 | 19h 11m 52s | -20° 22’ 51” |
Star | HIP 94309 | 8.0808 | 19h 11m 45s | -19° 11’ 21” |
Star | HIP 93887 | 6.279 | 19h 07m 08s | -18° 44’ 17” |
Star | HIP 93996 | 5.578 | 19h 08m 16s | -19° 17’ 25” |
Star | HIP 93696 | 8.6244 | 19h 04m 47s | -18° 42’ 27” |
Star | HIP 93785 | 8.2218 | 19h 05m 57s | -19° 28’ 52” |
Star | HIP 94394 | 8.1192 | 19h 12m 44s | -19° 14’ 06” |
Star | HIP 94429 | 7.8172 | 19h 13m 09s | -20° 25’ 18” |
Star | HIP 94127 | 7.8912 | 19h 09m 39s | -20° 02’ 27” |
Star | HIP 94637 | 7.6396 | 19h 15m 26s | -19° 47’ 12” |
Star | HIP 93869 | 8.675 | 19h 07m 00s | -19° 59’ 05” |
Star | HIP 94274 | 7.729 | 19h 11m 19s | -20° 20’ 50” |
Star | HIP 94144 | 5.9952 | 19h 09m 48s | -19° 48’ 12” |
Star | HIP 94040 | 6.3962 | 19h 08m 44s | -18° 57’ 10” |
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