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Mercury live position and data.
Right Ascension: 19.697287
Declination: -21.577867 (J2000) Magnitude: -0.12 (Estimated: JPL) Constellation: Sagittarius
Sun Distance: 68142035 km [ km/s]
Earth Distance: 167630265 km [ km/s]
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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).
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” |
This online sky chart is created using the following astronomy databases and services: