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Mercury Tonight

The innermost planet never strays far from the Sun, so it is only ever seen low in twilight, for a couple of weeks around each greatest elongation.

Tonight

Choose a location to see where Mercury is from your city tonight.

Upcoming Mercury events

  1. Mercury at greatest elongation west (morning)

    23:31 UTC · magnitude -0.5

  2. Mercury at superior conjunction

    17:15 UTC · magnitude -1.2

  3. Mercury at greatest elongation east (evening)

    06:16 UTC · magnitude -0.5

  4. Moon near Mercury

    03:57 UTC · magnitude 0.3 · 0.3° apart

  5. Mercury at inferior conjunction

    16:39 UTC · magnitude 4.7

  6. Moon near Mercury

    06:32 UTC · magnitude 0.7 · 1.1° apart

  7. Mercury at greatest elongation west (morning)

    06:45 UTC · magnitude 0.2

  8. Mercury and Neptune close together

    18:15 UTC · magnitude -0.5 · 1.0° apart

  9. Mercury at superior conjunction

    21:26 UTC · magnitude -2.2

  10. Mercury and Uranus close together

    11:14 UTC · magnitude -1.0 · 1.9° apart

  11. Mercury at greatest elongation east (evening)

    10:04 UTC · magnitude 0.5

  12. Moon near Mercury

    06:54 UTC · magnitude 1.6 · 2.7° apart

  13. Mercury at inferior conjunction

    08:00 UTC · magnitude 5.2

  14. Mercury at greatest elongation west (morning)

    19:22 UTC · magnitude 0.4

  15. Mercury at superior conjunction

    11:04 UTC · magnitude -1.9

  16. Mercury at greatest elongation east (evening)

    22:06 UTC · magnitude 0.1

  17. Moon near Mercury

    23:22 UTC · magnitude 0.3 · 1.6° apart

  18. Mercury at inferior conjunction

    15:31 UTC · magnitude 5.4

  19. Mercury at greatest elongation west (morning)

    08:53 UTC · magnitude -0.5

  20. Mercury at superior conjunction

    22:22 UTC · magnitude -1.2

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