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 102251	8.9724	20h 43m 07s	-21° 57’ 45”
Star	HIP 102280	7.1084	20h 43m 26s	-22° 27’ 13”
Star	HIP 102486	7.7456	20h 46m 09s	-21° 44’ 42”
Star	HIP 102487	5.9074	20h 46m 09s	-21° 30’ 50”
Star	HIP 102495	0	20h 46m 18s	-23° 04’ 46”
Star	HIP 102512	7.1992	20h 46m 30s	-22° 09’ 49”
Star	HIP 102636	7.7216	20h 47m 49s	-23° 28’ 30”
Star	HIP 102668	7.9414	20h 48m 16s	-22° 50’ 43”
Star	HIP 102675	7.2692	20h 48m 21s	-22° 44’ 25”
Star	HIP 102762	8.093	20h 49m 15s	-20° 37’ 49”
Star	HIP 102908	7.1172	20h 50m 54s	-21° 18’ 43”
Star	HIP 103027	7.2386	20h 52m 21s	-21° 13’ 51”
Star	HIP 103274	8.179	20h 55m 18s	-22° 07’ 25”

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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