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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):

TypeNameMagnitudeArDec
StarHIP 731618.154614h 57m 07s-16° 30’ 53”
StarHIP 733088.474614h 58m 52s-15° 26’ 10”
StarHIP 727697.680814h 52m 31s-15° 23’ 15”
StarHIP 730747.921214h 56m 02s-15° 39’ 23”
StarHIP 732386.513614h 58m 05s-17° 21’ 51”
StarHIP 729478.796414h 54m 30s-16° 23’ 33”
StarHIP 730977.247214h 56m 19s-16° 48’ 02”
StarHIP 735178.496815h 01m 34s-15° 56’ 02”
StarHIP 727848.151414h 52m 38s-16° 23’ 51”
StarHIP 730328.966614h 55m 32s-15° 20’ 25”
StarHIP 732908.805814h 58m 41s-17° 40’ 45”
GalaxyNGC 579612.614h 59m 23s-16° 37’ 27”

Additional resources

Additional Resources about Mars

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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