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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):

TypeNameMagnitudeArDec
StarHIP 459897.739409h 22m 46s+15° 46’ 36”
StarHIP 461496.964209h 24m 41s+17° 42’ 38”
StarHIP 467457.555209h 31m 39s+15° 46’ 12”
StarHIP 468668.946809h 32m 59s+16° 29’ 41”
StarHIP 464498.418409h 28m 25s+15° 09’ 56”
StarHIP 462326.189409h 25m 32s+16° 35’ 08”
StarHIP 465457.097809h 29m 32s+17° 39’ 06”
StarHIP 463117.826209h 26m 37s+16° 41’ 53”
StarHIP 463978.549409h 27m 39s+15° 44’ 30”
StarHIP 466358.288609h 30m 35s+15° 15’ 36”

Additional resources

Additional Resources about Mercury

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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