Encke's Comet live position and data

This page shows Comet Encke (2P/Encke) 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 Encke's Comet (less than 1.5 degrees):

Type	Name	Magnitude	Ar	Dec
Star	HIP 109	7.1762	00h 01m 23s	+06° 47’ 29”
Star	HIP 117877	8.146	23h 54m 36s	+05° 03’ 24”
Star	HIP 117914	8.0454	23h 55m 01s	+05° 55’ 42”
Star	HIP 118310	8.848	23h 59m 47s	+06° 39’ 52”
Star	HIP 118268	4.0008	23h 59m 18s	+06° 51’ 48”
Star	HIP 376	8.29	00h 04m 41s	+06° 31’ 21”
Star	HIP 118137	8.8266	23h 57m 47s	+05° 24’ 15”
Star	HIP 118054	6.847	23h 56m 47s	+04° 43’ 30”
Star	HIP 219	8.4948	00h 02m 45s	+06° 02’ 04”
Star	HIP 118242	8.8994	23h 58m 59s	+06° 24’ 48”
Star	HIP 118320	7.4894	23h 59m 54s	+05° 57’ 23”
Star	HIP 188	8.5964	00h 02m 24s	+06° 19’ 59”
Star	HIP 117900	7.2288	23h 54m 52s	+06° 06’ 25”
Galaxy	NGC 7785	12.6	23h 55m 19s	+05° 54’ 52”
Galaxy	NGC 7820	13.9	00h 04m 30s	+05° 11’ 54”

Additional resources

Additional Resources about Comet Encke (2P/Encke)

• 15 Days Ephemerides
• Interactive Sky Map (Planetarium)
• Rise & Set Times
• Distance from Earth
• Light Curve
• Orbital Elements

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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