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 56785	0	11h 38m 32s	+10° 33’ 42”
Star	HIP 57139	0	11h 42m 57s	+08° 12’ 32”
Star	HIP 56646	8.2092	11h 36m 56s	+10° 30’ 37”
Star	HIP 56756	6.0796	11h 38m 09s	+08° 53’ 01”
Star	HIP 56542	8.329	11h 35m 37s	+09° 34’ 50”
Star	HIP 57159	8.7034	11h 43m 20s	+10° 25’ 24”
Star	HIP 56968	7.3422	11h 40m 41s	+08° 40’ 20”
Star	HIP 56779	5.1714	11h 38m 27s	+08° 08’ 03”
Galaxy	IC 724	13.6	11h 43m 34s	+08° 56’ 30”
Galaxy	IC 719	13.8	11h 40m 18s	+09° 00’ 33”
Galaxy	NGC 3825	13.7	11h 42m 23s	+10° 15’ 51”
Galaxy	NGC 3822	13.8	11h 42m 11s	+10° 16’ 38”

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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