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BepiColombo live position and data

This page shows BepiColombo 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 BepiColombo (less than 1.5 degrees):

TypeNameMagnitudeArDec
StarHIP 57975011h 53m 32s+03° 31’ 01”
StarHIP 575258.906411h 47m 25s+02° 00’ 47”
StarHIP 581137.738611h 55m 07s+03° 13’ 07”
StarHIP 577573.550211h 50m 41s+01° 45’ 55”
StarHIP 576817.72111h 49m 46s+02° 13’ 54”
StarHIP 582678.353811h 56m 58s+02° 24’ 44”
StarHIP 574677.790411h 46m 46s+03° 28’ 27”
StarHIP 573707.975411h 45m 42s+02° 49’ 18”

Additional resources

Additional Resources about BepiColombo

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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