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Encke's Comet live position and data.
Right Ascension: 21.148564
Declination: -19.019743 (J2000) Magnitude: 19.72 (Estimated: JPL) Constellation: Capricornus
Sun Distance: 421947774 km [ km/s]
Earth Distance: 564524181 km [ km/s]
Perihelion: 9 Mar 2017 23:35 UTC [] |
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).
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 104777 | 0 | 21h 13m 34s | -19° 19’ 36” |
Star | HIP 103960 | 8.5922 | 21h 03m 50s | -19° 37’ 06” |
Star | HIP 104276 | 6.5992 | 21h 07m 29s | -19° 05’ 17” |
Star | HIP 104230 | 8.1358 | 21h 07m 06s | -18° 42’ 05” |
Star | HIP 103896 | 8.4976 | 21h 03m 05s | -19° 19’ 14” |
Star | HIP 103922 | 8.8846 | 21h 03m 20s | -19° 43’ 23” |
Star | HIP 104429 | 6.6294 | 21h 09m 15s | -20° 11’ 35” |
Star | HIP 103865 | 6.8164 | 21h 02m 45s | -19° 14’ 55” |
Star | HIP 103976 | 7.5036 | 21h 04m 01s | -18° 06’ 43” |
Star | HIP 104019 | 4.8358 | 21h 04m 24s | -19° 51’ 17” |
Star | HIP 104540 | 8.0368 | 21h 10m 32s | -18° 19’ 50” |
Star | HIP 104387 | 7.9794 | 21h 08m 49s | -18° 43’ 37” |
Star | HIP 104204 | 6.4182 | 21h 06m 41s | -20° 10’ 48” |
Star | HIP 104261 | 8.1172 | 21h 07m 19s | -20° 29’ 59” |
Star | HIP 103997 | 8.1634 | 21h 04m 13s | -18° 31’ 23” |
This online sky chart is created using the following astronomy databases and services: