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 98479	8.7436	20h 00m 24s	-25° 53’ 51”
Star	HIP 98521	7.9134	20h 00m 54s	-26° 13’ 25”
Star	HIP 98715	8.2512	20h 03m 00s	-26° 02’ 29”
Star	HIP 98839	8.1022	20h 04m 18s	-26° 19’ 45”
Star	HIP 98854	8.5074	20h 04m 27s	-23° 58’ 57”
Star	HIP 98931	8.6536	20h 05m 14s	-25° 03’ 28”
Star	HIP 99051	8.5382	20h 06m 36s	-25° 34’ 35”
Star	HIP 99070	7.8662	20h 06m 46s	-26° 26’ 05”
Star	HIP 99254	8.6956	20h 08m 51s	-25° 55’ 57”
Star	HIP 99273	7.1454	20h 09m 05s	-26° 13’ 25”
Star	HIP 99365	7.419	20h 10m 06s	-25° 17’ 02”

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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