Object: 12P/Pons-Brooks (open sky map)

RA 15h 29m 06s Dec -43° 11’ 21” Appar J2000

Mag: 19.62 (Estimated: JPL) Const: Lupus

Sun Dist: 829200852.05024 km [ km/s]
Earth Dist: 737676049.36046 km [ km/s]
Perihelion: 18 Jul 2095 04:07 UTC []

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12P/Pons-Brooks Live Position Tracker

This page shows Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks 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).

Current close conjunctions

List of bright objects (stars brighter than magnitude 9.0 and galaxies brighter than magmitude 14.0) close to Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks (less than 1.5 degrees):

Type	Name	Magnitude	Ar	Dec
Star	HIP 75745	0	15h 28m 27s	-43° 59’ 41”
Star	HIP 75247	6.741	15h 22m 33s	-44° 17’ 34”
Star	HIP 75507	8.4108	15h 25m 25s	-41° 56’ 28”
Star	HIP 75831	8.0136	15h 29m 25s	-43° 34’ 42”
Star	HIP 75613	7.7362	15h 26m 57s	-44° 06’ 27”
Star	HIP 75072	8.577	15h 20m 28s	-42° 26’ 13”
Star	HIP 75568	8.333	15h 26m 15s	-42° 51’ 44”
Star	HIP 76252	8.47	15h 34m 33s	-43° 27’ 34”
Star	HIP 75073	8.5438	15h 20m 28s	-42° 34’ 21”
Star	HIP 75418	7.9974	15h 24m 31s	-43° 55’ 38”
Star	HIP 76213	8.9308	15h 34m 05s	-43° 43’ 32”
Star	HIP 75967	7.4248	15h 30m 51s	-43° 51’ 55”
Star	HIP 76054	8.6648	15h 31m 55s	-43° 39’ 52”
Star	HIP 75661	8.3704	15h 27m 29s	-43° 05’ 14”
Star	HIP 75915	6.1664	15h 30m 21s	-41° 55’ 08”
Star	HIP 75628	8.8084	15h 27m 08s	-41° 39’ 31”
Star	HIP 75575	8.6216	15h 26m 20s	-42° 23’ 54”
Star	HIP 76007	8.4722	15h 31m 24s	-42° 23’ 34”
Star	HIP 75481	8.7874	15h 25m 09s	-44° 21’ 03”

Additional resources

Astronomy databases

This online sky chart is created using the following astronomy databases and services:

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
The Hipparcos Star Catalogue, containing more than 100.000 bright stars
The PGC 2003 Catalogue, containing information about 1 million galaxies
The GSC 2.3 Catalogue, containing information about more than 2 billion stars and galaxies

Please see the acknowledgements section.

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