45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova live position and data

This page shows Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova 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 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova (less than 1.5 degrees):

Type	Name	Magnitude	Ar	Dec
Star	HIP 66280	8.046	13h 35m 04s	-06° 58’ 03”
Star	HIP 66465	6.9238	13h 37m 35s	-07° 52’ 18”
Star	HIP 66468	8.559	13h 37m 38s	-06° 39’ 08”
Star	HIP 66560	8.4792	13h 38m 40s	-08° 25’ 16”
Star	HIP 66757	8.6376	13h 40m 57s	-08° 40’ 09”
Star	HIP 66764	8.9772	13h 41m 03s	-06° 21’ 16”
Star	HIP 66803	4.8744	13h 41m 36s	-08° 42’ 11”
Star	HIP 66831	8.0118	13h 41m 48s	-07° 33’ 22”
Star	HIP 66853	8.6822	13h 42m 02s	-06° 58’ 08”
Star	HIP 66972	8.0042	13h 43m 35s	-07° 25’ 37”
Star	HIP 67082	6.96	13h 44m 56s	-07° 38’ 03”
Galaxy	PGC 48085	13.7	13h 37m 00s	-08° 12’ 45”
Galaxy	PGC 48394	13.5	13h 40m 42s	-07° 45’ 02”

Additional resources

Additional Resources about Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova

• 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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