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 70185	0	14h 21m 34s	-16° 15’ 30”
Star	HIP 70554	7.9538	14h 25m 57s	-16° 17’ 57”
Star	HIP 70923	7.0436	14h 30m 13s	-15° 14’ 54”
Star	HIP 70677	7.2882	14h 27m 21s	-14° 50’ 19”
Star	HIP 71006	7.7514	14h 31m 19s	-15° 38’ 16”
Star	HIP 70682	7.6542	14h 27m 25s	-15° 48’ 47”
Star	HIP 70739	8.933	14h 27m 59s	-14° 22’ 56”
Star	HIP 70434	8.212	14h 24m 30s	-14° 47’ 26”
Star	HIP 70379	6.6838	14h 23m 57s	-16° 06’ 06”
Star	HIP 70443	7.9042	14h 24m 37s	-14° 42’ 48”
Galaxy	NGC 5595	12.6	14h 24m 13s	-16° 43’ 23”
Galaxy	NGC 5597	12.6	14h 24m 27s	-16° 45’ 46”

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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