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40P/Vaisala 1 live position and data

This page shows Comet 40P/Vaisala 1 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 40P/Vaisala 1 (less than 1.5 degrees):

TypeNameMagnitudeArDec
StarHIP 116664023h 38m 32s-09° 19’ 07”
StarHIP 1166396.816423h 38m 12s-08° 37’ 39”
StarHIP 1164047.690623h 35m 16s-09° 41’ 23”
StarHIP 1163887.24123h 35m 04s-07° 40’ 38”
StarHIP 1165947.835223h 37m 41s-09° 58’ 29”
StarHIP 1169518.411223h 42m 22s-08° 49’ 42”
StarHIP 1161248.95123h 31m 46s-08° 19’ 42”
StarHIP 1162267.884823h 32m 56s-09° 09’ 34”
StarHIP 1163298.539823h 34m 19s-09° 42’ 34”
StarHIP 1168918.5623h 41m 35s-08° 49’ 29”
StarHIP 1168347.104623h 40m 48s-07° 54’ 50”
StarHIP 1164707.122823h 36m 00s-08° 45’ 57”

Additional resources

Additional Resources about Comet 40P/Vaisala 1

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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