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 4570	8.3274	00h 58m 27s	+12° 07’ 32”
Star	HIP 4866	8.8112	01h 02m 34s	+14° 15’ 07”
Star	HIP 5207	7.2008	01h 06m 36s	+13° 53’ 04”
Star	HIP 5258	8.846	01h 07m 12s	+12° 04’ 49”
Star	HIP 4687	8.0298	01h 00m 13s	+11° 56’ 07”
Star	HIP 4915	7.9332	01h 03m 06s	+13° 02’ 55”
Star	HIP 5101	8.6944	01h 05m 23s	+14° 06’ 29”
Star	HIP 5176	8.085	01h 06m 12s	+13° 15’ 10”
Star	HIP 5117	8.398	01h 05m 34s	+12° 28’ 07”
Star	HIP 5407	8.6396	01h 09m 11s	+12° 41’ 34”
Star	HIP 4775	7.8556	01h 01m 21s	+11° 54’ 45”
Star	HIP 4480	8.1464	00h 57m 21s	+12° 25’ 47”
Star	HIP 5204	6.0366	01h 06m 33s	+12° 57’ 21”
Galaxy	UGC 610	14.0	00h 58m 49s	+12° 59’ 11”

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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