Mercury live position and data

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

Type	Name	Magnitude	Ar	Dec
Star	HIP 98488	7.1754	20h 00m 29s	-15° 53’ 12”
Star	HIP 98113	8.55	19h 56m 22s	-16° 22’ 19”
Star	HIP 98947	7.4656	20h 05m 21s	-16° 22’ 23”
Star	HIP 98676	7.7622	20h 02m 33s	-15° 52’ 27”
Star	HIP 98970	8.7678	20h 05m 36s	-17° 42’ 01”
Star	HIP 98589	7.2904	20h 01m 32s	-16° 52’ 07”
Star	HIP 98150	8.3274	19h 56m 48s	-16° 36’ 55”
Star	HIP 98502	8.252	20h 00m 42s	-18° 17’ 22”
Star	HIP 98286	7.6198	19h 58m 11s	-15° 58’ 10”
Star	HIP 98732	7.859	20h 03m 12s	-18° 14’ 31”
Star	HIP 98724	7.45	20h 03m 05s	-17° 20’ 53”
Star	HIP 98361	8.3788	19h 59m 02s	-17° 57’ 33”
Star	HIP 98623	7.9422	20h 01m 51s	-17° 33’ 00”
Galaxy	IC 1309	13.6	20h 03m 01s	-17° 13’ 53”

Additional resources

Additional Resources about Mercury

• 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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