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 7454	0	01h 36m 02s	+06° 22’ 46”
Star	HIP 7007	4.7048	01h 30m 10s	+06° 08’ 38”
Star	HIP 7532	8.1294	01h 37m 02s	+05° 37’ 51”
Star	HIP 7069	8.2168	01h 31m 06s	+06° 37’ 09”
Star	HIP 7414	8.6522	01h 35m 34s	+05° 00’ 40”
Star	HIP 6815	6.9686	01h 27m 39s	+05° 21’ 11”
Star	HIP 7307	8.1318	01h 34m 03s	+04° 07’ 43”
Star	HIP 7259	8.2198	01h 33m 32s	+06° 33’ 59”
Star	HIP 7210	8.6338	01h 32m 52s	+04° 46’ 28”
Star	HIP 7352	8.0306	01h 34m 46s	+06° 35’ 11”
Star	HIP 7029	8.4784	01h 30m 33s	+05° 22’ 16”
Star	HIP 7046	8.1932	01h 30m 50s	+05° 58’ 24”
Star	HIP 7476	7.7452	01h 36m 16s	+04° 18’ 51”
Star	HIP 7220	8.746	01h 33m 00s	+05° 22’ 56”
Galaxy	NGC 632	13.4	01h 37m 17s	+05° 52’ 39”

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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