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 59215	8.0034	12h 08m 41s	+03° 06’ 32”
Star	HIP 58895	7.0656	12h 04m 43s	+03° 34’ 23”
Star	HIP 59441	8.6924	12h 11m 32s	+02° 36’ 28”
Star	HIP 59134	7.3466	12h 07m 32s	+04° 30’ 47”
Star	HIP 59627	8.7892	12h 13m 38s	+03° 58’ 17”
Star	HIP 59187	8.3704	12h 08m 18s	+03° 39’ 30”
Star	HIP 59755	7.8502	12h 15m 13s	+04° 31’ 32”
Star	HIP 59451	6.9076	12h 11m 40s	+04° 03’ 21”
Star	HIP 59536	7.591	12h 12m 29s	+03° 24’ 14”
Star	HIP 59263	8.4214	12h 09m 21s	+03° 06’ 24”
Galaxy	NGC 4123	11.8	12h 08m 10s	+02° 52’ 40”
Galaxy	NGC 4116	12.3	12h 07m 36s	+02° 41’ 32”

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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