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 43233	0	08h 48m 26s	+06° 28’ 09”
Star	HIP 43406	0	08h 50m 29s	+07° 37’ 50”
Star	HIP 44004	8.2264	08h 57m 36s	+05° 53’ 45”
Star	HIP 43306	8.3078	08h 49m 21s	+05° 43’ 02”
Star	HIP 43255	8.2796	08h 48m 41s	+06° 34’ 33”
Star	HIP 43350	6.5868	08h 49m 48s	+07° 00’ 53”
Star	HIP 43832	8.5606	08h 55m 39s	+06° 59’ 30”
Star	HIP 43816	6.5464	08h 55m 26s	+05° 33’ 57”
Star	HIP 43555	8.406	08h 52m 14s	+06° 54’ 31”
Star	HIP 43234	4.3436	08h 48m 25s	+05° 50’ 16”
Star	HIP 43570	6.3248	08h 52m 24s	+05° 20’ 25”
Star	HIP 43637	8.3664	08h 53m 16s	+07° 46’ 38”
Star	HIP 43739	7.0554	08h 54m 30s	+05° 27’ 52”
Star	HIP 43109	3.3296	08h 46m 46s	+06° 25’ 08”
Star	HIP 43362	6.9382	08h 49m 57s	+06° 32’ 50”
Star	HIP 43831	8.8134	08h 55m 37s	+06° 09’ 04”
Star	HIP 43813	3.0194	08h 55m 23s	+05° 56’ 43”

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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