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 117445	6.4218	23h 48m 49s	+02° 12’ 52”
Star	HIP 117491	5.7576	23h 49m 27s	+01° 04’ 34”
Star	HIP 117260	7.0938	23h 46m 34s	+00° 31’ 48”
Star	HIP 117832	7.4898	23h 53m 52s	+00° 35’ 46”
Star	HIP 116984	8.5762	23h 42m 56s	+00° 14’ 22”
Star	HIP 117012	8.7834	23h 43m 14s	+01° 06’ 47”
Star	HIP 117457	8.8788	23h 48m 57s	+00° 26’ 16”
Star	HIP 117097	7.9402	23h 44m 18s	+00° 42’ 44”
Star	HIP 117195	8.2714	23h 45m 47s	+01° 40’ 19”
Star	HIP 117215	7.8264	23h 46m 00s	+00° 15’ 43”
Star	HIP 117704	8.1016	23h 52m 16s	+01° 29’ 54”
Star	HIP 117529	8.384	23h 50m 07s	+01° 58’ 12”
Star	HIP 117013	8.4868	23h 43m 14s	+00° 54’ 16”
Star	HIP 117156	7.551	23h 45m 04s	+02° 05’ 29”
Galaxy	NGC 7738	14.0	23h 44m 01s	+00° 31’ 00”

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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