Object: 260P/McNaught (open sky map)

RA 14h 51m 36s Dec -35° 33’ 21” Appar J2000

Mag: 22.72 (Estimated: JPL) Const: Centaurus

Sun Dist: 582994974.69983 km [ km/s]
Earth Dist: 439748110.36585 km [ km/s]
Perihelion: 30 Sep 2019 18:19 UTC []

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260P/McNaught Live Position Tracker

This page shows Comet 260P/McNaught 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 260P/McNaught (less than 1.5 degrees):

Type	Name	Magnitude	Ar	Dec
Star	HIP 72400	0	14h 48m 10s	-36° 47’ 00”
Star	HIP 73082	8.649	14h 56m 11s	-35° 23’ 15”
Star	HIP 72705	8.6654	14h 51m 55s	-34° 28’ 49”
Star	HIP 72984	7.2574	14h 54m 54s	-36° 25’ 49”
Star	HIP 73123	7.9698	14h 56m 41s	-35° 14’ 23”
Star	HIP 72712	8.0564	14h 51m 58s	-36° 37’ 37”
Star	HIP 72485	8.1	14h 49m 17s	-34° 01’ 12”
Star	HIP 72427	6.6112	14h 48m 32s	-35° 50’ 29”
Star	HIP 72948	8.504	14h 54m 30s	-34° 55’ 11”
Star	HIP 72196	8.4826	14h 46m 00s	-36° 26’ 44”
Star	HIP 72140	7.362	14h 45m 20s	-36° 08’ 51”
Star	HIP 72350	7.8306	14h 47m 40s	-34° 44’ 00”
Star	HIP 72432	5.8602	14h 48m 38s	-36° 38’ 04”
Star	HIP 73145	7.864	14h 56m 54s	-35° 41’ 43”
Star	HIP 72584	8.0612	14h 50m 30s	-35° 05’ 35”
Star	HIP 72459	7.6376	14h 49m 01s	-35° 33’ 00”
Star	HIP 72104	4.9282	14h 44m 59s	-35° 11’ 30”
Star	HIP 72010	3.9184	14h 43m 39s	-35° 10’ 23”
Star	HIP 72977	8.9134	14h 54m 50s	-36° 09’ 11”
Star	HIP 72075	8.8738	14h 44m 36s	-34° 54’ 03”

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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