4 Vesta live position and data

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 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 4 Vesta (less than 1.5 degrees):

Type	Name	Magnitude	Ar	Dec
Star	HIP 50535	8.2948	10h 19m 16s	+14° 40’ 05”
Star	HIP 50560	8.8422	10h 19m 39s	+15° 44’ 39”
Star	HIP 50755	6.17	10h 21m 50s	+14° 58’ 32”
Star	HIP 50784	8.7742	10h 22m 10s	+16° 28’ 11”
Star	HIP 50829	7.235	10h 22m 43s	+15° 20’ 40”
Star	HIP 50884	8.7024	10h 23m 25s	+13° 54’ 19”
Star	HIP 50911	8.5754	10h 23m 47s	+14° 49’ 20”
Star	HIP 51080	8.4228	10h 26m 11s	+14° 54’ 00”
Star	HIP 51201	7.7822	10h 27m 28s	+15° 46’ 34”
Star	HIP 51277	7.4522	10h 28m 25s	+14° 45’ 12”
Star	HIP 51279	7.2854	10h 28m 26s	+15° 45’ 20”
Galaxy	PGC 30378	10.2	10h 22m 34s	+13° 42’ 48”
Galaxy	UGC 5646	14.0	10h 25m 53s	+14° 21’ 43”

Additional resources

Additional Resources about Asteroid 4 Vesta

• 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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