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).
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 49492 | 0 | 10h 06m 15s | +08° 50’ 04” |
Star | HIP 50203 | 7.9064 | 10h 14m 57s | +09° 12’ 40” |
Star | HIP 49766 | 6.9326 | 10h 09m 31s | +09° 35’ 35” |
Star | HIP 49637 | 4.2286 | 10h 07m 54s | +09° 59’ 51” |
Star | HIP 50081 | 7.3366 | 10h 13m 30s | +09° 11’ 09” |
Star | HIP 50011 | 8.918 | 10h 12m 36s | +07° 40’ 38” |
Star | HIP 49562 | 8.6502 | 10h 07m 07s | +08° 46’ 09” |
Star | HIP 49861 | 8.5782 | 10h 10m 54s | +07° 41’ 40” |
Star | HIP 49496 | 8.3246 | 10h 06m 18s | +07° 56’ 40” |
This online sky chart is created using the following astronomy databases and services: