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9P/Tempel 1 live position and data

This page shows Comet 9P/Tempel 1 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 9P/Tempel 1 (less than 1.5 degrees):

TypeNameMagnitudeArDec
StarHIP 239005.504605h 08m 06s+24° 15’ 54”
StarHIP 239178.485805h 08m 20s+23° 12’ 52”
StarHIP 242347.957205h 12m 11s+24° 16’ 45”
StarHIP 245126.265605h 15m 27s+22° 17’ 05”
StarHIP 241638.125605h 11m 20s+22° 21’ 45”
StarHIP 246688.6105h 17m 32s+22° 49’ 45”
StarHIP 244158.290805h 14m 18s+22° 39’ 35”
StarHIP 244878.801605h 15m 15s+23° 49’ 49”
StarHIP 241517.819205h 11m 11s+23° 03’ 50”
StarHIP 243157.8805h 13m 03s+24° 23’ 49”
StarHIP 246656.75505h 17m 31s+24° 00’ 35”

Additional resources

Additional Resources about Comet 9P/Tempel 1

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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