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1566 Icarus live position and data

This page shows Asteroid 1566 Icarus 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 Asteroid 1566 Icarus (less than 1.5 degrees):

TypeNameMagnitudeArDec
StarHIP 957556.77919h 28m 35s-15° 06’ 08”
StarHIP 961697.982819h 33m 15s-15° 00’ 27”
StarHIP 956708.497219h 27m 35s-16° 27’ 10”
StarHIP 957798.278419h 28m 50s-16° 31’ 02”
StarHIP 959746.816419h 30m 58s-14° 33’ 47”
StarHIP 960088.4319h 31m 15s-16° 23’ 50”
StarHIP 962177.996819h 33m 57s-16° 16’ 25”
StarHIP 961767.534419h 33m 20s-16° 36’ 36”
StarHIP 958427.114819h 29m 33s-15° 21’ 31”
StarHIP 962556.710619h 34m 18s-16° 22’ 27”
StarHIP 957587.38919h 28m 36s-14° 09’ 37”
StarHIP 961097.85519h 32m 26s-15° 45’ 05”
StarHIP 962128.04119h 33m 50s-15° 49’ 27”
StarHIP 962487.565619h 34m 15s-16° 18’ 58”
StarHIP 960228.57419h 31m 25s-13° 58’ 41”
StarHIP 955746.689219h 26m 24s-14° 33’ 04”
StarHIP 959527.460819h 30m 46s-16° 10’ 00”
StarHIP 958847.686619h 30m 02s-15° 58’ 32”
StarHIP 955575.7219h 26m 11s-15° 03’ 11”

Additional resources

Additional Resources about Asteroid 1566 Icarus

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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