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 2047	8.4884	00h 25m 57s	+01° 56’ 59”
Star	HIP 2057	8.3362	00h 26m 03s	+00° 26’ 15”
Star	HIP 2073	8.3966	00h 26m 12s	+01° 09’ 51”
Star	HIP 2100	6.1128	00h 26m 37s	-00° 02’ 58”
Star	HIP 2281	8.7424	00h 29m 09s	+00° 02’ 26”
Star	HIP 2333	7.734	00h 29m 50s	-00° 19’ 15”
Star	HIP 2458	0	00h 31m 15s	+01° 57’ 53”
Star	HIP 2519	8.808	00h 31m 56s	+01° 30’ 37”
Star	HIP 2706	8.4674	00h 34m 23s	+01° 00’ 09”
Galaxy	UGC 280	13.8	00h 28m 21s	-00° 13’ 24”
Galaxy	PGC 1703	14.0	00h 27m 39s	+00° 31’ 36”
Galaxy	NGC 132	13.5	00h 30m 10s	+02° 05’ 36”

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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