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 38492 | 0 | 07h 52m 59s | +22° 33’ 23” |
Star | HIP 39422 | 0 | 08h 03m 30s | +21° 18’ 11” |
Star | HIP 39064 | 7.5836 | 07h 59m 33s | +20° 50’ 42” |
Star | HIP 38777 | 8.1762 | 07h 56m 15s | +20° 49’ 03” |
Star | HIP 38601 | 6.6772 | 07h 54m 13s | +21° 06’ 19” |
Star | HIP 39077 | 6.814 | 07h 59m 42s | +23° 10’ 58” |
Star | HIP 39087 | 8.0544 | 07h 59m 46s | +23° 05’ 13” |
Star | HIP 39002 | 8.285 | 07h 58m 54s | +21° 09’ 13” |
Star | HIP 39344 | 7.8068 | 08h 02m 33s | +21° 52’ 19” |
Star | HIP 39223 | 8.8608 | 08h 01m 22s | +22° 21’ 30” |
Star | HIP 38495 | 6.9358 | 07h 53m 01s | +22° 20’ 04” |
Star | HIP 38678 | 8.6252 | 07h 55m 08s | +21° 40’ 16” |
Star | HIP 39447 | 6.7216 | 08h 03m 50s | +22° 04’ 14” |
Star | HIP 38856 | 7.0292 | 07h 57m 05s | +20° 58’ 00” |
Star | HIP 38785 | 7.4968 | 07h 56m 19s | +22° 34’ 19” |
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