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 43043	7.9642	08h 46m 11s	+14° 03’ 43”
Star	HIP 43441	8.7106	08h 50m 50s	+12° 59’ 05”
Star	HIP 43666	7.054	08h 53m 45s	+13° 49’ 49”
Star	HIP 43742	8.6498	08h 54m 33s	+15° 40’ 55”
Star	HIP 43755	8.8964	08h 54m 46s	+13° 33’ 41”
Star	HIP 43360	8.4182	08h 49m 56s	+14° 49’ 51”
Star	HIP 43833	7.7	08h 55m 39s	+14° 10’ 51”
Star	HIP 43679	8.6808	08h 53m 54s	+14° 49’ 42”
Star	HIP 43359	7.5518	08h 49m 55s	+14° 50’ 00”
Star	HIP 43663	8.0682	08h 53m 43s	+14° 24’ 33”
Star	HIP 43547	8.872	08h 52m 08s	+15° 17’ 22”
Star	HIP 43759	8.5956	08h 54m 49s	+14° 46’ 02”
Star	HIP 43454	6.3068	08h 51m 01s	+15° 21’ 01”
Star	HIP 43779	7.9018	08h 55m 00s	+14° 43’ 41”
Star	HIP 43569	7.7476	08h 52m 24s	+13° 14’ 01”
Star	HIP 43212	8.2276	08h 48m 10s	+15° 06’ 38”
Star	HIP 43735	7.7326	08h 54m 27s	+14° 14’ 41”
Galaxy	UGC 4670	13.9	08h 55m 55s	+13° 13’ 42”

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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