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 115752	0	23h 27m 04s	-01° 17’ 12”
Star	HIP 115862	7.9768	23h 28m 27s	-02° 39’ 12”
Star	HIP 116290	7.7324	23h 33m 41s	-02° 14’ 40”
Star	HIP 116159	8.7782	23h 32m 08s	-03° 01’ 42”
Star	HIP 116225	7.0784	23h 32m 55s	-03° 01’ 00”
Star	HIP 115909	8.5152	23h 29m 02s	-01° 28’ 13”
Star	HIP 115572	7.4726	23h 24m 38s	-01° 44’ 28”
Star	HIP 115845	8.0144	23h 28m 08s	-02° 26’ 53”
Star	HIP 115945	6.2188	23h 29m 26s	-01° 47’ 28”
Star	HIP 115767	7.5012	23h 27m 14s	-02° 38’ 12”
Galaxy	PGC 71626	13.0	23h 30m 32s	-02° 27’ 43”
Galaxy	IC 1496	13.1	23h 30m 53s	-02° 56’ 03”
Galaxy	NGC 7694	13.6	23h 33m 15s	-02° 42’ 11”
Galaxy	IC 1492	13.6	23h 30m 35s	-03° 02’ 25”

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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