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 63348	8.9626	12h 58m 50s	-03° 31’ 58”
Star	HIP 63391	8.0762	12h 59m 23s	-04° 54’ 24”
Star	HIP 62915	6.3296	12h 53m 38s	-04° 13’ 28”
Star	HIP 63414	5.7858	12h 59m 39s	-03° 48’ 42”
Star	HIP 63328	6.5176	12h 58m 39s	-02° 54’ 12”
Star	HIP 63070	7.1762	12h 55m 21s	-04° 30’ 15”
Star	HIP 63654	8.6444	13h 02m 45s	-04° 36’ 32”
Star	HIP 63494	5.8806	13h 00m 35s	-03° 22’ 06”
Star	HIP 63419	8.6398	12h 59m 45s	-04° 25’ 48”
Star	HIP 63750	6.6024	13h 03m 54s	-03° 39’ 46”
Star	HIP 62875	6.0764	12h 53m 11s	-03° 33’ 11”
Star	HIP 63099	7.62	12h 55m 40s	-03° 33’ 02”
Star	HIP 63139	6.9556	12h 56m 15s	-04° 51’ 50”
Star	HIP 63634	8.9996	13h 02m 31s	-04° 38’ 04”
Galaxy	NGC 4843	14.0	12h 58m 00s	-03° 37’ 18”
Galaxy	NGC 4890	12.7	13h 00m 38s	-04° 36’ 11”
Galaxy	NGC 4915	12.9	13h 01m 20s	-04° 33’ 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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