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 1941	7.4696	00h 24m 32s	-04° 38’ 52”
Star	HIP 1900	7.3148	00h 23m 59s	-03° 28’ 31”
Star	HIP 1588	8.7052	00h 19m 51s	-05° 27’ 01”
Star	HIP 1661	8.6872	00h 20m 49s	-04° 06’ 57”
Star	HIP 1917	8.911	00h 24m 14s	-04° 30’ 09”
Star	HIP 1755	7.1012	00h 22m 14s	-05° 11’ 30”
Star	HIP 1691	7.3228	00h 21m 13s	-03° 18’ 43”
Star	HIP 1825	8.5074	00h 23m 05s	-03° 36’ 11”
Star	HIP 2138	6.9442	00h 27m 05s	-05° 00’ 13”
Star	HIP 1974	8.6302	00h 24m 59s	-04° 31’ 03”
Star	HIP 1380	8.7132	00h 17m 15s	-04° 26’ 56”
Galaxy	PGC 1109	12.6	00h 16m 50s	-05° 16’ 06”

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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