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 71188	0	14h 33m 34s	-09° 55’ 50”
Star	HIP 70784	6.4576	14h 28m 31s	-10° 00’ 15”
Star	HIP 71323	8.4534	14h 35m 07s	-09° 18’ 29”
Star	HIP 70688	8.6822	14h 27m 30s	-10° 12’ 17”
Star	HIP 71417	7.3898	14h 36m 18s	-09° 36’ 44”
Star	HIP 71118	8.1812	14h 32m 34s	-09° 45’ 25”
Star	HIP 71331	7.6052	14h 35m 15s	-09° 05’ 43”
Star	HIP 70867	7.7494	14h 29m 31s	-10° 33’ 59”
Star	HIP 71083	8.28	14h 32m 11s	-10° 56’ 07”

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.

Close