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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):

TypeNameMagnitudeArDec
StarHIP 8051001h 43m 20s+04° 19’ 24”
StarHIP 82116.97301h 45m 43s+03° 40’ 02”
StarHIP 84045.804801h 48m 26s+03° 41’ 07”
StarHIP 79577.50401h 42m 10s+02° 18’ 28”
StarHIP 81737.076801h 45m 04s+02° 30’ 11”
StarHIP 78608.008801h 41m 06s+03° 42’ 49”
StarHIP 83928.35101h 48m 14s+02° 42’ 41”
StarHIP 82256.791601h 45m 55s+03° 25’ 03”
StarHIP 83298.254801h 47m 22s+03° 55’ 02”
StarHIP 81168.474401h 44m 19s+02° 36’ 56”
StarHIP 81346.550801h 44m 35s+03° 13’ 25”
StarHIP 80908.142601h 43m 51s+03° 35’ 24”
StarHIP 78338.35701h 40m 46s+02° 42’ 17”
StarHIP 77478.107401h 39m 43s+03° 27’ 19”
GalaxyUGC 118312.701h 40m 28s+02° 41’ 09”
GalaxyNGC 66413.701h 43m 45s+04° 13’ 17”
GalaxyUGC 121413.801h 43m 57s+02° 20’ 57”

Additional resources

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

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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