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66P/du Toit live position and data

This page shows Comet 66P/du Toit 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 66P/du Toit (less than 1.5 degrees):

TypeNameMagnitudeArDec
StarHIP 30338.69300h 38m 34s+06° 01’ 19”
StarHIP 28477.715600h 36m 03s+07° 09’ 21”
StarHIP 32708.88900h 41m 40s+05° 34’ 25”
StarHIP 29188.173600h 36m 57s+05° 24’ 44”
StarHIP 29918.816200h 38m 01s+05° 50’ 51”
StarHIP 25485.703600h 32m 23s+06° 57’ 19”
StarHIP 26887.61900h 34m 08s+05° 57’ 28”
StarHIP 33387.696600h 42m 32s+05° 40’ 31”
StarHIP 26598.375400h 33m 40s+04° 56’ 52”

Additional resources

Additional Resources about Comet 66P/du Toit

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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