Mercury Real Time Position & Data |
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Right Ascension: 3.017848
Declination: 13.680437 (J2000) Magnitude: 0.29 (Estimated: JPL) Constellation: Aries
Sun Distance: 63067653 km [ km/s]
Earth Distance: 132799553 km [ km/s]
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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 in the background 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 14439 | 5.5296 | 03h 06m 23s | +13° 11’ 14” |
| Star | HIP 14069 | 7.724 | 03h 01m 17s | +14° 58’ 56” |
| Star | HIP 14048 | 7.2556 | 03h 00m 53s | +15° 01’ 52” |
| Star | HIP 14404 | 8.9092 | 03h 05m 47s | +14° 16’ 03” |
| Star | HIP 13878 | 7.1986 | 02h 58m 45s | +13° 36’ 16” |
| Star | HIP 13678 | 8.939 | 02h 56m 12s | +13° 54’ 47” |
| Star | HIP 14343 | 8.6262 | 03h 04m 57s | +12° 39’ 36” |
| Star | HIP 14037 | 8.3802 | 03h 00m 46s | +12° 59’ 05” |
| Star | HIP 14329 | 7.2738 | 03h 04m 49s | +13° 47’ 50” |
| Star | HIP 14236 | 7.7658 | 03h 03m 33s | +14° 28’ 14” |
Additional resources
- 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:
- 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
- The Hipparcos Star Catalogue, containing more than 100.000 bright stars
- The PGC 2003 Catalogue, containing information about 1 million galaxies
- The GSC 2.3 Catalogue, containing information about more than 2 billion stars and galaxies
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