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 96723	8.6328	19h 39m 44s	-21° 36’ 21”
Star	HIP 96552	8.9314	19h 37m 44s	-20° 48’ 56”
Star	HIP 97301	7.4444	19h 46m 30s	-21° 31’ 22”
Star	HIP 97138	7.4372	19h 44m 32s	-22° 51’ 20”
Star	HIP 97004	8.0762	19h 42m 58s	-21° 28’ 58”
Star	HIP 96785	8.9596	19h 40m 23s	-22° 43’ 40”
Star	HIP 97251	8.7598	19h 45m 55s	-22° 04’ 20”
Star	HIP 96488	7.594	19h 36m 54s	-21° 54’ 09”
Star	HIP 96393	8.8074	19h 35m 51s	-20° 55’ 18”
Star	HIP 96778	7.859	19h 40m 16s	-21° 18’ 08”
Star	HIP 96792	8.1376	19h 40m 33s	-21° 15’ 10”
Star	HIP 97383	7.9202	19h 47m 30s	-21° 49’ 39”
Star	HIP 96741	7.3676	19h 39m 55s	-22° 03’ 45”
Star	HIP 96763	7.5328	19h 40m 09s	-20° 32’ 51”
Star	HIP 97130	8.4012	19h 44m 27s	-20° 47’ 16”
Star	HIP 96913	8.8842	19h 42m 00s	-22° 22’ 51”

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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