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 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”

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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