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 59301	0	12h 09m 58s	+05° 27’ 16”
Star	HIP 59309	5.678	12h 10m 03s	+05° 48’ 25”
Star	HIP 59510	7.2912	12h 12m 17s	+05° 52’ 22”
Star	HIP 59002	7.7342	12h 05m 50s	+05° 21’ 26”
Star	HIP 59134	7.3466	12h 07m 32s	+04° 30’ 47”
Star	HIP 58866	6.9644	12h 04m 18s	+04° 55’ 54”
Star	HIP 59080	8.4906	12h 06m 56s	+05° 48’ 14”
Star	HIP 59063	8.7802	12h 06m 45s	+05° 17’ 57”
Star	HIP 59520	8.2102	12h 12m 23s	+06° 03’ 54”
Star	HIP 58809	6.3636	12h 03m 44s	+05° 33’ 28”
Star	HIP 59170	7.752	12h 08m 02s	+06° 02’ 10”
Star	HIP 59479	8.7938	12h 11m 58s	+05° 20’ 28”

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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