Mars live position and data

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

Type	Name	Magnitude	Ar	Dec
Star	HIP 10300	7.0088	02h 12m 42s	+13° 55’ 06”
Star	HIP 10143	7.9718	02h 10m 29s	+15° 09’ 05”
Star	HIP 10669	8.6112	02h 17m 17s	+14° 27’ 57”
Star	HIP 10081	8.7072	02h 09m 38s	+14° 24’ 23”
Star	HIP 10730	7.8242	02h 18m 05s	+13° 25’ 47”
Star	HIP 10328	5.5616	02h 13m 03s	+15° 16’ 47”
Star	HIP 10766	8.3056	02h 18m 34s	+13° 57’ 01”
Star	HIP 10175	7.5696	02h 10m 52s	+13° 41’ 00”
Star	HIP 10727	7.6498	02h 18m 03s	+14° 28’ 00”
Star	HIP 10094	7.6796	02h 09m 46s	+13° 10’ 32”
Galaxy	NGC 877	12.6	02h 17m 58s	+14° 32’ 49”
Galaxy	NGC 820	13.7	02h 08m 25s	+14° 20’ 57”

Additional resources

Additional Resources about Mars

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

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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