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 in the background 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 Mercury (less than 1.5 degrees):
Type | Name | Magnitude | Ar | Dec |
Star | HIP 41824 | 0 | 08h 31m 37s | +19° 23’ 40” |
Star | HIP 42164 | 7.4694 | 08h 35m 45s | +19° 46’ 16” |
Star | HIP 41727 | 8.4854 | 08h 30m 31s | +18° 56’ 34” |
Star | HIP 41440 | 8.307 | 08h 27m 04s | +19° 15’ 13” |
Star | HIP 41903 | 8.3436 | 08h 32m 39s | +20° 08’ 49” |
Star | HIP 41638 | 8.8328 | 08h 29m 27s | +20° 25’ 46” |
Star | HIP 41115 | 8.849 | 08h 23m 20s | +19° 48’ 52” |
Star | HIP 41334 | 8.5208 | 08h 25m 59s | +20° 11’ 36” |
Star | HIP 41233 | 8.7454 | 08h 24m 49s | +19° 10’ 13” |
Star | HIP 42133 | 6.5114 | 08h 35m 19s | +19° 35’ 24” |
Star | HIP 41833 | 6.326 | 08h 31m 41s | +18° 59’ 16” |
Star | HIP 41232 | 7.284 | 08h 24m 49s | +20° 09’ 10” |
Star | HIP 41765 | 7.3978 | 08h 31m 00s | +18° 58’ 06” |
Star | HIP 41978 | 8.5886 | 08h 33m 23s | +20° 23’ 24” |
Star | HIP 41231 | 8.6484 | 08h 24m 48s | +20° 08’ 34” |
Star | HIP 41909 | 5.2118 | 08h 32m 42s | +20° 26’ 28” |
Star | HIP 41710 | 8.7548 | 08h 30m 20s | +20° 51’ 28” |
Galaxy | NGC 2582 | 13.9 | 08h 25m 12s | +20° 20’ 07” |
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