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55P/Tempel-Tuttle live position and data

This page shows Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle 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 55P/Tempel-Tuttle (less than 1.5 degrees):

TypeNameMagnitudeArDec
StarHIP 74906015h 18m 30s-18° 10’ 57”
StarHIP 75062015h 20m 20s-19° 58’ 32”
StarHIP 75314015h 23m 13s-19° 14’ 36”
StarHIP 755327.719415h 25m 52s-18° 30’ 57”
StarHIP 751106.067615h 20m 53s-18° 09’ 30”
StarHIP 757688.149815h 28m 43s-18° 43’ 23”
StarHIP 749928.031415h 19m 26s-19° 10’ 08”
StarHIP 756076.908815h 26m 50s-20° 00’ 18”
StarHIP 752918.474615h 22m 59s-18° 50’ 40”
StarHIP 754147.883415h 24m 29s-19° 57’ 49”
StarHIP 752178.881815h 22m 13s-18° 15’ 16”
StarHIP 750277.035415h 19m 50s-19° 33’ 00”
StarHIP 751378.432215h 21m 17s-18° 13’ 04”
StarHIP 758308.662815h 29m 24s-19° 24’ 16”

Additional resources

Additional Resources about Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle

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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