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Encke's Comet live position and data.
Right Ascension: 0.094620
Declination: 5.214443 (J2000) Magnitude: 20.36 (Estimated: JPL) Constellation: Pisces
Sun Distance: 425278071 km [ km/s]
Earth Distance: 573753846 km [ km/s]
Perihelion: 26 Jun 2020 04:42 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 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” |
This online sky chart is created using the following astronomy databases and services: