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):

Type	Name	Magnitude	Ar	Dec
Star	HIP 1392	0	00h 17m 24s	+08° 52’ 34”
Star	HIP 1771	0	00h 22m 25s	+06° 40’ 05”
Star	HIP 1645	5.2502	00h 20m 35s	+08° 11’ 24”
Star	HIP 1196	5.9906	00h 14m 58s	+08° 49’ 15”
Star	HIP 1435	7.506	00h 17m 52s	+07° 51’ 57”
Star	HIP 1197	7.5008	00h 14m 59s	+08° 49’ 06”
Star	HIP 1738	8.4356	00h 21m 59s	+07° 00’ 42”
Star	HIP 1535	8.7724	00h 19m 07s	+07° 16’ 56”
Star	HIP 1286	7.5688	00h 16m 05s	+08° 06’ 56”
Star	HIP 1554	8.2752	00h 19m 22s	+09° 02’ 39”
Star	HIP 1103	7.3572	00h 13m 45s	+08° 11’ 36”
Star	HIP 1319	6.0274	00h 16m 34s	+08° 14’ 24”

Additional resources

Additional Resources about BepiColombo

• 15 Days Ephemerides
• Interactive Sky Map (Planetarium)
• Rise & Set Times
• Distance from Earth

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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