Printable finder charts for 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova
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| Date span | Estimated date when brightest | Date of perigee | Date of perihelion | Dark on light | Light on dark |
| Sep 1984 – Mar 1985 | 2 Dec | 8 Dec | 28 Nov | PNGPDF-RGBPDF-CMYKSVG | PNGPDF-RGBPDF-CMYKSVG |
| Jan 1990 – Jul 1990 | 5 Apr | 26 Apr | 3 Apr | PNGPDF-RGBPDF-CMYKSVG | PNGPDF-RGBPDF-CMYKSVG |
| May 1995 – Nov 1995 | 3 Aug | 3 Jul | 7 Aug | PNGPDF-RGBPDF-CMYKSVG | PNGPDF-RGBPDF-CMYKSVG |
| Sep 2000 – Mar 2001 | 18 Dec | 2 Jan | 10 Dec | PNGPDF-RGBPDF-CMYKSVG | PNGPDF-RGBPDF-CMYKSVG |
| Jan 2006 – Jul 2006 | 16 Apr | 4 May | 15 Apr | PNGPDF-RGBPDF-CMYKSVG | PNGPDF-RGBPDF-CMYKSVG |
| May 2011 – Nov 2011 | 14 Aug | 12 Jul | 19 Aug | PNGPDF-RGBPDF-CMYKSVG | PNGPDF-RGBPDF-CMYKSVG |
| Oct 2016 – Apr 2017 | 4 Jan | 30 Jan | 22 Dec | PNGPDF-RGBPDF-CMYKSVG | PNGPDF-RGBPDF-CMYKSVG |
| Jan 2022 – Jul 2022 | 27 Apr | 11 May | 27 Apr | PNGPDF-RGBPDF-CMYKSVG | PNGPDF-RGBPDF-CMYKSVG |
| May 2027 – Nov 2027 | 25 Aug | 22 Jul | 31 Aug | PNGPDF-RGBPDF-CMYKSVG | PNGPDF-RGBPDF-CMYKSVG |
Credits
The charts above were generated using StarCharter, a command-line tool for producing vector-graphics charts of the night sky, written by the author and freely available for download.
The paths of the planets are taken from the DE430 planetary ephemeris computed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Planetary positions were extracted from the DE430 files using EphemerisCompute, which was also written by the author, and is also freely available for download.
The positions of asteroids are calculated from orbital elements published by Ted Bowell of the Lowell Observatory. Comet positions are computed from orbital elements published by the Minor Planet Center (MPC).
Star positions and magnitudes were taken from the Hipparcos, Tycho, Tycho-2 and Gaia EDR3 catalogs.