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 55820	8.6222	11h 26m 25s	+10° 25’ 22”
Star	HIP 55642	3.929	11h 23m 55s	+10° 31’ 46”
Star	HIP 55421	8.7862	11h 20m 57s	+11° 13’ 09”
Star	HIP 55263	8.0584	11h 19m 06s	+09° 45’ 03”
Star	HIP 55306	8.8524	11h 19m 35s	+09° 55’ 56”
Star	HIP 55209	6.6574	11h 18m 21s	+11° 59’ 04”
Star	HIP 55246	7.6134	11h 18m 51s	+10° 35’ 47”
Star	HIP 55351	8.4844	11h 20m 04s	+12° 03’ 26”
Star	HIP 55716	5.6584	11h 24m 58s	+11° 25’ 49”
Star	HIP 55488	6.6742	11h 21m 50s	+09° 10’ 06”
Galaxy	NGC 3666	12.4	11h 24m 25s	+11° 20’ 34”

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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