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 34073	8.5372	07h 04m 00s	+24° 13’ 51”
Star	HIP 34228	8.2862	07h 05m 46s	+23° 16’ 30”
Star	HIP 34266	6.7332	07h 06m 11s	+24° 51’ 36”
Star	HIP 34351	6.5908	07h 07m 16s	+24° 10’ 06”
Star	HIP 34493	8.8178	07h 08m 50s	+23° 16’ 17”
Star	HIP 34532	8.4624	07h 09m 19s	+25° 15’ 43”
Star	HIP 34567	7.0178	07h 09m 35s	+25° 43’ 44”
Star	HIP 34582	7.7152	07h 09m 44s	+25° 44’ 05”
Star	HIP 34630	0	07h 10m 23s	+24° 20’ 42”
Star	HIP 34640	7.89	07h 10m 29s	+24° 06’ 30”
Star	HIP 34704	7.8698	07h 11m 15s	+24° 39’ 49”
Star	HIP 34749	8.7628	07h 11m 38s	+23° 13’ 25”
Star	HIP 34819	5.8244	07h 12m 26s	+24° 07’ 43”
Star	HIP 34861	7.0554	07h 12m 49s	+25° 44’ 55”
Star	HIP 34950	0	07h 13m 53s	+25° 00’ 41”
Star	HIP 34995	6.8818	07h 14m 26s	+24° 42’ 40”
Star	HIP 35025	5.6906	07h 14m 41s	+24° 53’ 06”
Star	HIP 35099	7.8128	07h 15m 29s	+23° 51’ 23”

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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