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Mercury live position and data.
Right Ascension: 11.450579
Declination: 2.673918 (J2000) Magnitude: 0.12 (Estimated: JPL) Constellation: Leo
Sun Distance: 69289706 km [ km/s]
Earth Distance: 157656698 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 55848 | 0 | 11h 26m 46s | +03° 00’ 21” |
Star | HIP 55769 | 6.7204 | 11h 25m 39s | +03° 18’ 04” |
Star | HIP 56209 | 7.4606 | 11h 31m 23s | +03° 03’ 45” |
Star | HIP 55906 | 7.3094 | 11h 27m 33s | +01° 18’ 05” |
Star | HIP 55846 | 6.3844 | 11h 26m 45s | +03° 00’ 45” |
Star | HIP 56073 | 7.3358 | 11h 29m 35s | +03° 46’ 47” |
Star | HIP 55945 | 4.8494 | 11h 27m 56s | +02° 51’ 22” |
Star | HIP 55982 | 7.2182 | 11h 28m 25s | +02° 46’ 59” |
Star | HIP 56008 | 8.4298 | 11h 28m 39s | +01° 52’ 16” |
Star | HIP 56029 | 8.5114 | 11h 29m 00s | +02° 44’ 03” |
Star | HIP 55791 | 6.3252 | 11h 25m 50s | +03° 51’ 36” |
Star | HIP 55638 | 8.709 | 11h 23m 51s | +03° 37’ 09” |
Star | HIP 55699 | 7.5238 | 11h 24m 45s | +02° 05’ 47” |
Star | HIP 56102 | 8.1382 | 11h 29m 58s | +03° 12’ 18” |
Star | HIP 55650 | 5.2938 | 11h 24m 02s | +01° 24’ 27” |
Galaxy | NGC 3664 | 13.2 | 11h 24m 24s | +03° 19’ 39” |
This online sky chart is created using the following astronomy databases and services: