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 53697	8.341	10h 59m 10s	+06° 55’ 51”
Star	HIP 53725	8.1622	10h 59m 31s	+07° 13’ 13”
Star	HIP 53848	8.9042	11h 00m 56s	+07° 37’ 03”
Star	HIP 53977	7.2084	11h 02m 32s	+09° 10’ 22”
Star	HIP 54057	7.1086	11h 03m 41s	+07° 34’ 55”
Star	HIP 54182	4.5952	11h 05m 01s	+07° 20’ 10”
Star	HIP 54268	8.4028	11h 06m 07s	+07° 02’ 00”
Star	HIP 54274	7.2336	11h 06m 09s	+07° 08’ 22”
Star	HIP 54330	8.9988	11h 06m 51s	+08° 06’ 28”
Star	HIP 54331	7.6398	11h 06m 51s	+06° 41’ 53”
Star	HIP 54454	8.1232	11h 08m 27s	+07° 37’ 50”
Galaxy	NGC 3526	13.8	11h 06m 56s	+07° 10’ 26”

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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