56P/Slaughter-Burnham live position and data

This page shows Comet 56P/Slaughter-Burnham 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 56P/Slaughter-Burnham (less than 1.5 degrees):

Type	Name	Magnitude	Ar	Dec
Star	HIP 53824	4.9776	11h 00m 44s	+06° 06’ 05”
Star	HIP 53725	8.1622	10h 59m 31s	+07° 13’ 13”
Star	HIP 53513	8.9592	10h 56m 50s	+05° 37’ 53”
Star	HIP 53485	7.7586	10h 56m 30s	+05° 16’ 24”
Star	HIP 53856	8.0824	11h 01m 03s	+05° 20’ 00”
Star	HIP 54313	8.128	11h 06m 40s	+05° 25’ 48”
Star	HIP 53449	5.8454	10h 56m 01s	+06° 11’ 07”
Star	HIP 53845	8.8104	11h 00m 54s	+05° 58’ 17”
Star	HIP 54108	7.6954	11h 04m 19s	+05° 13’ 29”
Star	HIP 54109	8.1886	11h 04m 19s	+05° 47’ 44”
Star	HIP 53697	8.341	10h 59m 10s	+06° 55’ 51”
Galaxy	NGC 3509	13.8	11h 04m 23s	+04° 49’ 50”

Additional resources

Additional Resources about Comet 56P/Slaughter-Burnham

• 15 Days Ephemerides
• Interactive Sky Map (Planetarium)
• Rise & Set Times
• Distance from Earth
• Light Curve
• Orbital Elements

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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