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 114803	8.2844	23h 15m 20s	-04° 32’ 02”
Star	HIP 114977	7.4258	23h 17m 15s	-04° 26’ 06”
Star	HIP 115030	8.6924	23h 17m 53s	-04° 31’ 18”
Star	HIP 115037	8.7984	23h 17m 56s	-03° 01’ 33”
Star	HIP 115105	8.7622	23h 18m 50s	-05° 05’ 58”
Star	HIP 115142	5.5462	23h 19m 23s	-05° 07’ 27”
Star	HIP 115220	6.601	23h 20m 15s	-03° 55’ 07”
Star	HIP 115316	6.773	23h 21m 21s	-04° 40’ 21”
Star	HIP 115464	8.4876	23h 23m 23s	-03° 12’ 54”
Star	HIP 115599	8.7204	23h 24m 59s	-05° 12’ 42”
Galaxy	NGC 7576	13.7	23h 17m 22s	-04° 43’ 41”
Galaxy	NGC 7585	12.3	23h 18m 01s	-04° 39’ 02”

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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