RA: 
Dec: 

71P/Clark live position and data

This page shows Comet 71P/Clark 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 71P/Clark (less than 1.5 degrees):

TypeNameMagnitudeArDec
StarHIP 350488.980207h 14m 53s+31° 29’ 05”
StarHIP 339168.408407h 02m 18s+31° 14’ 21”
StarHIP 347007.970207h 11m 14s+32° 36’ 54”
StarHIP 342296.492607h 05m 47s+31° 23’ 35”
StarHIP 346488.90107h 10m 32s+31° 58’ 46”
StarHIP 349207.32607h 13m 30s+32° 08’ 43”
StarHIP 345217.769407h 09m 10s+30° 23’ 13”
StarHIP 348816.902807h 13m 04s+31° 57’ 55”
StarHIP 341607.222807h 04m 59s+30° 21’ 44”
StarHIP 343118.230207h 06m 50s+32° 47’ 22”
StarHIP 347458.08307h 11m 37s+31° 22’ 39”
StarHIP 343238.433607h 06m 55s+32° 27’ 11”
StarHIP 346636.86507h 10m 43s+32° 37’ 07”
StarHIP 339457.804407h 02m 39s+31° 20’ 24”
StarHIP 347337.14807h 11m 28s+30° 28’ 21”
StarHIP 346717.502207h 10m 48s+32° 13’ 24”

Additional resources

Additional Resources about Comet 71P/Clark

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.

RA:  ()
Dec:  ()