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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):

TypeNameMagnitudeArDec
StarHIP 20012004h 17m 27s+23° 28’ 08”
StarHIP 20604004h 24m 47s+25° 24’ 34”
StarHIP 207895.529804h 27m 17s+22° 59’ 46”
StarHIP 208668.36704h 28m 20s+24° 07’ 04”
StarHIP 206318.08404h 25m 19s+23° 47’ 16”
StarHIP 207114.26604h 26m 18s+22° 48’ 49”
StarHIP 202267.087804h 20m 03s+23° 35’ 55”
StarHIP 205336.315804h 23m 59s+24° 18’ 03”
StarHIP 208128.93104h 27m 34s+25° 03’ 41”
StarHIP 205318.065204h 23m 57s+24° 18’ 13”
StarHIP 204128.658604h 22m 19s+22° 39’ 44”
StarHIP 202098.830204h 19m 51s+23° 45’ 28”
StarHIP 204917.141804h 23m 30s+24° 24’ 19”
StarHIP 205136.851204h 23m 44s+22° 57’ 53”
StarHIP 205807.914404h 24m 29s+22° 44’ 29”
StarHIP 201397.784804h 19m 04s+24° 01’ 40”

Additional resources

Additional Resources about Mercury

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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