Mercury at superior conjunction
Exact moment (showing UTC)
- Planet
- Mercury
- Brightness
- magnitude -2.3
Choose a location to see whether Mercury is up from your city around this time.
What is happening
Mercury passes behind the Sun as seen from Earth and is lost in the glare for weeks. Afterwards it re-emerges in the evening sky.
Positions come from the JPL approximate planetary elements and are good to a few arcminutes; timings are accurate to within an hour or so.