This page shows Asteroid 9 Metis 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 in the background 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 Asteroid 9 Metis (less than 1.5 degrees):
Type | Name | Magnitude | Ar | Dec |
Star | HIP 71823 | 8.6474 | 14h 41m 32s | -12° 43’ 12” |
Star | HIP 71559 | 7.3832 | 14h 38m 07s | -12° 54’ 38” |
Star | HIP 72442 | 7.555 | 14h 48m 48s | -13° 07’ 09” |
Star | HIP 72174 | 8.8744 | 14h 45m 44s | -12° 21’ 13” |
Star | HIP 72347 | 8.4218 | 14h 47m 38s | -12° 56’ 04” |
Star | HIP 71807 | 8.339 | 14h 41m 18s | -13° 55’ 42” |
Star | HIP 71745 | 6.809 | 14h 40m 32s | -14° 02’ 48” |
Star | HIP 71566 | 8.7196 | 14h 38m 11s | -13° 04’ 23” |
Star | HIP 71875 | 7.9626 | 14h 42m 02s | -13° 51’ 14” |
Star | HIP 72373 | 6.206 | 14h 47m 54s | -12° 50’ 23” |
Star | HIP 71873 | 6.699 | 14h 42m 02s | -12° 14’ 05” |
Galaxy | NGC 5745 | 13.3 | 14h 45m 01s | -13° 56’ 50” |
Galaxy | IC 1055 | 13.6 | 14h 47m 25s | -13° 43’ 00” |
Galaxy | PGC 52853 | 13.1 | 14h 47m 56s | -14° 16’ 51” |
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