41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak live position and data

This page shows Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak 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 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak (less than 1.5 degrees):

Type	Name	Magnitude	Ar	Dec
Star	HIP 8651	0	01h 51m 29s	+02° 43’ 49”
Star	HIP 8972	0	01h 55m 37s	+02° 53’ 00”
Star	HIP 8756	8.459	01h 52m 37s	+01° 15’ 26”
Star	HIP 8173	7.0768	01h 45m 04s	+02° 30’ 11”
Star	HIP 8392	8.351	01h 48m 14s	+02° 42’ 41”
Star	HIP 8998	6.0002	01h 55m 53s	+01° 50’ 58”
Star	HIP 8757	7.4202	01h 52m 38s	+02° 29’ 53”
Star	HIP 8454	7.3414	01h 49m 00s	+01° 19’ 53”
Star	HIP 8657	7.949	01h 51m 34s	+02° 23’ 10”
Star	HIP 8833	4.5238	01h 53m 33s	+03° 11’ 14”

Additional resources

Additional Resources about Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak

• 15 Days Ephemerides
• Interactive Sky Map (Planetarium)
• Rise & Set Times
• Distance from Earth
• Light Curve
• Orbital Elements

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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