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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):

TypeNameMagnitudeArDec
StarHIP 57548011h 47m 44s+00° 48’ 27”
StarHIP 571198.987811h 42m 36s-00° 56’ 17”
StarHIP 569887.044611h 40m 55s-00° 40’ 27”
StarHIP 571587.854811h 43m 19s+00° 11’ 06”
StarHIP 573158.42711h 45m 05s+01° 34’ 43”
StarHIP 569416.870411h 40m 24s+00° 57’ 07”
StarHIP 573067.227411h 45m 01s-00° 31’ 03”
StarHIP 576296.099211h 49m 01s-00° 19’ 07”
StarHIP 573178.48511h 45m 07s+00° 54’ 34”
GalaxyUGC 666514.011h 42m 12s+00° 20’ 03”

Additional resources

Additional Resources about Comet 56P/Slaughter-Burnham

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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