Moon near Mercury
Exact moment (showing UTC)
- Planet
- Mercury
- Brightness
- magnitude -0.5
- Separation
- 0.1°
Choose a location to see whether Mercury is up from your city around this time.
What is happening
The Moon passes 0.1° from Mercury, making the planet easy to identify: it is the bright point right beside the Moon.
Positions come from the JPL approximate planetary elements and are good to a few arcminutes; timings are accurate to within an hour or so.