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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 130127.113802h 47m 15s+22° 57’ 37”
StarHIP 127337.761402h 43m 41s+21° 08’ 49”
StarHIP 130298.591602h 47m 28s+21° 20’ 43”
StarHIP 128197.710202h 44m 48s+21° 36’ 50”
StarHIP 132538.498202h 50m 33s+22° 06’ 50”
StarHIP 128997.64402h 45m 47s+20° 41’ 33”
StarHIP 129988.452402h 47m 08s+22° 36’ 14”
StarHIP 131528.729802h 49m 09s+21° 15’ 33”

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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