Mars live position and data

This page shows Mars 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 Mars (less than 1.5 degrees):

Type Name Magnitude Ar Dec Star HIP 8031 0 01h 43m 10s +06° 06’ 40” Star HIP 8587 8.4066 01h 50m 52s +06° 31’ 43” Star HIP 8617 8.8274 01h 51m 08s +06° 43’ 30” Star HIP 8267 8.7986 01h 46m 30s +05° 57’ 12” Star HIP 8254 8.7002 01h 46m 13s +06° 32’ 10” Star HIP 7884 4.2966 01h 41m 25s +05° 29’ 15” Star HIP 7863 8.6504 01h 41m 09s +07° 35’ 18” Star HIP 7803 8.1094 01h 40m 23s +07° 05’ 11” Star HIP 8429 6.9162 01h 48m 40s +07° 41’ 02” Star HIP 8064 7.4004 01h 43m 38s +05° 44’ 43” Star HIP 8524 7.3476 01h 49m 55s +07° 13’ 25” Star HIP 7774 8.868 01h 40m 03s +06° 23’ 10” Star HIP 8494 8.2694 01h 49m 30s +05° 37’ 34” Galaxy NGC 693 13.2 01h 50m 30s +06° 08’ 41” Galaxy NGC 676 10.4 01h 48m 57s +05° 54’ 29”

Additional resources

Additional Resources about Mars

Astronomy databases

This online sky chart is created using the following astronomy databases and services:

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 The Hipparcos Star Catalogue, containing more than 100.000 bright stars The PGC 2003 Catalogue, containing information about 1 million galaxies The GSC 2.3 Catalogue, containing information about more than 2 billion stars and galaxies

Please see the acknowledgements section.