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 106199	6.5126	21h 30m 40s	-14° 17’ 28”
Star	HIP 106115	6.696	21h 29m 40s	-14° 01’ 36”
Star	HIP 105861	7.8716	21h 26m 27s	-15° 14’ 42”
Star	HIP 106631	8.6722	21h 35m 52s	-15° 41’ 46”
Star	HIP 106139	8.5974	21h 29m 56s	-15° 09’ 26”
Star	HIP 106525	8.8246	21h 34m 33s	-14° 37’ 43”
Star	HIP 106354	8.9042	21h 32m 25s	-15° 42’ 33”
Star	HIP 106165	8.4942	21h 30m 17s	-16° 18’ 16”
Star	HIP 106456	7.15	21h 33m 40s	-16° 12’ 02”

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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