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Mercury live position and data.
Right Ascension: 21.495070
Declination: -15.450609 (J2000) Magnitude: -0.78 (Estimated: JPL) Constellation: Capricornus
Sun Distance: 48471013 km [ km/s]
Earth Distance: 154534802 km [ km/s]
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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).
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” |
This online sky chart is created using the following astronomy databases and services: