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Mars live position and data.
Right Ascension: 14.962102
Declination: -16.342174 (J2000) Magnitude: 1.66 (Estimated: JPL) Constellation: Libra
Sun Distance: 240506052 km [ km/s]
Earth Distance: 344202260 km [ km/s]
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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).
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 73161 | 8.1546 | 14h 57m 07s | -16° 30’ 53” |
Star | HIP 73308 | 8.4746 | 14h 58m 52s | -15° 26’ 10” |
Star | HIP 72769 | 7.6808 | 14h 52m 31s | -15° 23’ 15” |
Star | HIP 73074 | 7.9212 | 14h 56m 02s | -15° 39’ 23” |
Star | HIP 73238 | 6.5136 | 14h 58m 05s | -17° 21’ 51” |
Star | HIP 72947 | 8.7964 | 14h 54m 30s | -16° 23’ 33” |
Star | HIP 73097 | 7.2472 | 14h 56m 19s | -16° 48’ 02” |
Star | HIP 73517 | 8.4968 | 15h 01m 34s | -15° 56’ 02” |
Star | HIP 72784 | 8.1514 | 14h 52m 38s | -16° 23’ 51” |
Star | HIP 73032 | 8.9666 | 14h 55m 32s | -15° 20’ 25” |
Star | HIP 73290 | 8.8058 | 14h 58m 41s | -17° 40’ 45” |
Galaxy | NGC 5796 | 12.6 | 14h 59m 23s | -16° 37’ 27” |
This online sky chart is created using the following astronomy databases and services: