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 70472	0	14h 24m 50s	-17° 27’ 08”
Star	HIP 70437	8.7698	14h 24m 33s	-18° 05’ 58”
Star	HIP 71114	8.5488	14h 32m 32s	-18° 49’ 21”
Star	HIP 70801	8.6858	14h 28m 46s	-17° 04’ 32”
Star	HIP 70608	8.7464	14h 26m 34s	-18° 49’ 12”
Star	HIP 71098	8.4214	14h 32m 21s	-17° 52’ 52”
Star	HIP 70889	8.8838	14h 29m 47s	-19° 10’ 39”
Star	HIP 70644	8.0472	14h 26m 58s	-17° 39’ 06”
Star	HIP 70795	8.9062	14h 28m 41s	-16° 57’ 51”
Galaxy	PGC 51343	14.0	14h 22m 23s	-17° 40’ 23”

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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