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 in the background 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).
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 110620 | 0 | 22h 24m 36s | -11° 34’ 42” |
Star | HIP 110786 | 6.9596 | 22h 26m 41s | -11° 13’ 41” |
Star | HIP 110169 | 7.8276 | 22h 18m 55s | -11° 33’ 26” |
Star | HIP 110741 | 8.9554 | 22h 26m 08s | -12° 48’ 01” |
Star | HIP 110688 | 8.5532 | 22h 25m 31s | -11° 54’ 28” |
Star | HIP 110217 | 8.5228 | 22h 19m 33s | -11° 54’ 59” |
Star | HIP 110902 | 8.2818 | 22h 28m 08s | -11° 53’ 25” |
Star | HIP 109998 | 7.1476 | 22h 16m 45s | -11° 38’ 56” |
Star | HIP 110611 | 7.5696 | 22h 24m 33s | -13° 11’ 05” |
Star | HIP 110065 | 8.6954 | 22h 17m 38s | -12° 14’ 19” |
Star | HIP 110439 | 7.5968 | 22h 22m 11s | -10° 50’ 52” |
Star | HIP 110193 | 8.5608 | 22h 19m 17s | -10° 47’ 25” |
Star | HIP 110637 | 7.6284 | 22h 24m 44s | -12° 57’ 27” |
Star | HIP 110375 | 8.9926 | 22h 21m 22s | -12° 11’ 08” |
Star | HIP 110278 | 7.7258 | 22h 20m 16s | -12° 13’ 17” |
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