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 in the background 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 26691	7.025	05h 40m 18s	+24° 32’ 15”
Star	HIP 26484	8.9894	05h 37m 58s	+22° 27’ 54”
Star	HIP 25761	8.0978	05h 30m 03s	+23° 45’ 31”
Star	HIP 26836	6.5862	05h 41m 54s	+23° 19’ 34”
Star	HIP 26248	5.3798	05h 35m 27s	+24° 02’ 22”
Star	HIP 26441	8.7744	05h 37m 36s	+23° 08’ 19”
Star	HIP 26015	7.771	05h 33m 05s	+23° 08’ 32”
Star	HIP 26761	7.5782	05h 41m 05s	+24° 21’ 00”
Star	HIP 26187	8.3688	05h 34m 55s	+22° 34’ 07”
Star	HIP 26201	6.7204	05h 35m 03s	+24° 17’ 26”
Star	HIP 26651	7.1216	05h 39m 51s	+24° 13’ 31”
Star	HIP 26449	8.891	05h 37m 38s	+23° 08’ 50”
Star	HIP 26240	8.3084	05h 35m 25s	+22° 26’ 17”
Star	HIP 26062	6.971	05h 33m 30s	+24° 37’ 44”
Star	HIP 26599	7.3188	05h 39m 14s	+23° 19’ 24”

Additional resources

• 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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