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 263	0	00h 03m 19s	+04° 41’ 13”
Star	HIP 538	0	00h 06m 31s	+05° 49’ 31”
Star	HIP 898	0	00h 11m 04s	+05° 12’ 31”
Star	HIP 658	8.0614	00h 08m 05s	+04° 55’ 38”
Star	HIP 593	8.8088	00h 07m 12s	+06° 12’ 15”
Star	HIP 376	8.29	00h 04m 41s	+06° 31’ 21”
Star	HIP 579	8.2024	00h 07m 02s	+05° 17’ 16”
Star	HIP 802	7.649	00h 09m 54s	+04° 49’ 56”
Star	HIP 219	8.4948	00h 02m 45s	+06° 02’ 04”
Star	HIP 294	7.858	00h 03m 40s	+03° 54’ 25”
Star	HIP 806	8.4016	00h 09m 57s	+04° 09’ 58”
Star	HIP 188	8.5964	00h 02m 24s	+06° 19’ 59”
Galaxy	NGC 12	14.0	00h 08m 44s	+04° 36’ 47”
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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