This page shows Asteroid 4 Vesta 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 4 Vesta (less than 1.5 degrees):
Type | Name | Magnitude | Ar | Dec |
Star | HIP 72844 | 0 | 14h 53m 22s | -07° 52’ 27” |
Star | HIP 73169 | 0 | 14h 57m 12s | -06° 19’ 00” |
Star | HIP 73194 | 0 | 14h 57m 33s | -06° 19’ 47” |
Star | HIP 72943 | 7.2374 | 14h 54m 28s | -08° 23’ 18” |
Star | HIP 73007 | 7.8736 | 14h 55m 13s | -07° 17’ 34” |
Star | HIP 73587 | 6.564 | 15h 02m 30s | -07° 50’ 25” |
Star | HIP 73565 | 6.5674 | 15h 02m 04s | -08° 20’ 41” |
Star | HIP 73280 | 8.1586 | 14h 58m 36s | -06° 25’ 39” |
Star | HIP 73571 | 6.374 | 15h 02m 08s | -07° 34’ 31” |
Star | HIP 73114 | 8.5168 | 14h 56m 33s | -08° 55’ 52” |
Star | HIP 73473 | 4.9518 | 15h 00m 58s | -08° 31’ 08” |
Star | HIP 73676 | 7.3346 | 15h 03m 36s | -07° 34’ 16” |
Star | HIP 72829 | 8.8154 | 14h 53m 11s | -07° 14’ 15” |
Galaxy | NGC 5812 | 12.2 | 15h 00m 55s | -07° 27’ 29” |
Galaxy | PGC 53180 | 13.8 | 14h 53m 06s | -07° 01’ 18” |
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