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 115302	0	23h 21m 11s	-01° 35’ 41”
Star	HIP 115752	0	23h 27m 04s	-01° 17’ 12”
Star	HIP 115463	8.3348	23h 23m 22s	-00° 56’ 48”
Star	HIP 115677	8.8478	23h 26m 10s	-00° 27’ 47”
Star	HIP 115491	8.6868	23h 23m 43s	-00° 53’ 04”
Star	HIP 115403	8.6456	23h 22m 39s	-01° 09’ 06”
Star	HIP 115909	8.5152	23h 29m 02s	-01° 28’ 13”
Star	HIP 115572	7.4726	23h 24m 38s	-01° 44’ 28”
Star	HIP 115845	8.0144	23h 28m 08s	-02° 26’ 53”
Star	HIP 115012	7.9514	23h 17m 37s	-01° 31’ 17”
Star	HIP 115074	8.5166	23h 18m 27s	-01° 53’ 54”
Star	HIP 115381	8.4808	23h 22m 23s	-00° 24’ 51”
Star	HIP 115767	7.5012	23h 27m 14s	-02° 38’ 12”

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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