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 19082	0	04h 05m 25s	+19° 26’ 32”
Star	HIP 18803	8.6868	04h 01m 45s	+21° 39’ 33”
Star	HIP 18762	6.6568	04h 01m 06s	+20° 11’ 57”
Star	HIP 19146	8.188	04h 06m 11s	+20° 40’ 05”
Star	HIP 18502	8.9076	03h 57m 23s	+21° 33’ 13”
Star	HIP 18976	8.0178	04h 03m 58s	+21° 04’ 15”
Star	HIP 19054	8.9226	04h 04m 56s	+20° 51’ 23”
Star	HIP 19093	8.2536	04h 05m 36s	+19° 57’ 18”
Star	HIP 18473	8.8024	03h 56m 52s	+20° 05’ 01”
Star	HIP 18490	6.7376	03h 57m 11s	+21° 19’ 24”
Star	HIP 18719	8.5896	04h 00m 39s	+20° 22’ 50”
Star	HIP 18405	7.7776	03h 56m 06s	+20° 46’ 18”

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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