51P/Harrington live position and data

This page shows Comet 51P/Harrington 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 51P/Harrington (less than 1.5 degrees):

Type	Name	Magnitude	Ar	Dec
Star	HIP 62759	8.9314	12h 51m 39s	+00° 29’ 46”
Star	HIP 63155	6.67	12h 56m 26s	-00° 57’ 15”
Star	HIP 63309	7.9804	12h 58m 27s	-01° 03’ 06”
Star	HIP 62664	8.6606	12h 50m 23s	-01° 49’ 30”
Star	HIP 63098	8.7326	12h 55m 40s	-01° 43’ 11”
Star	HIP 63093	6.6802	12h 55m 38s	+00° 03’ 19”
Star	HIP 62776	7.7892	12h 51m 51s	+00° 05’ 06”
Star	HIP 62808	7.5868	12h 52m 12s	-00° 55’ 44”
Star	HIP 62687	8.3458	12h 50m 43s	-00° 46’ 01”
Galaxy	UGC 8041	13.1	12h 55m 12s	+00° 07’ 02”
Galaxy	NGC 4753	10.9	12h 52m 22s	-01° 11’ 57”

Additional resources

Additional Resources about Comet 51P/Harrington

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

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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