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 49771 | 8.4684 | 10h 09m 35s | +15° 20’ 48” |
Star | HIP 49866 | 8.4566 | 10h 10m 56s | +14° 28’ 58” |
Star | HIP 49445 | 6.3398 | 10h 05m 40s | +15° 45’ 27” |
Star | HIP 50040 | 8.2102 | 10h 12m 59s | +16° 31’ 54” |
Star | HIP 50282 | 8.6976 | 10h 15m 59s | +15° 23’ 42” |
Star | HIP 50064 | 8.9232 | 10h 13m 17s | +15° 20’ 40” |
Star | HIP 49811 | 8.1858 | 10h 10m 07s | +16° 31’ 00” |
Star | HIP 49627 | 8.573 | 10h 07m 42s | +16° 16’ 29” |
Star | HIP 49623 | 7.094 | 10h 07m 39s | +15° 09’ 27” |
Star | HIP 50175 | 6.9312 | 10h 14m 31s | +16° 08’ 18” |
Star | HIP 49850 | 7.918 | 10h 10m 42s | +15° 42’ 16” |
Star | HIP 49846 | 8.3216 | 10h 10m 39s | +16° 02’ 15” |
This online sky chart is created using the following astronomy databases and services: