Mercury Sightings - Details for 2025

Mercury has seven elongations in 2025. The initial sighting by Joe Stieber for each of these is tabulated below:

Elongation #1

● The first sighting of the first elongation for 2025 (the 90th elongation in a row overall) was on Xxxxx, 2025, from xyz, NJ.

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The current streak is now 89 elongations in a row, completing the fourteenth calendar year of seeing Mercury at every elongation (beginning in January 2011). There are six or seven elongations per year. The years 2011, 2015, 2018, 2022 and 2024 each had seven (7) elongations, while 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2023 each had six (6). That's 89 elongations in 14 years, or an average of 6.36 elongations per year. Click here for sightings in 2024. The purpose of this ongoing effort is not to set some record, especially since I have no idea what sort of record might exist. My note to Gary Seronik that was published in S&T magazine (see the 2022 Mercury page) yielded no responses. Regardless, it demonstrates that locating and seeing Mercury is not nearly as difficult as many suppose. It just takes a little planning and effort, although circumstances make some elongations easy and some difficult.

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Last Update: Sunday, January 12, 2025 at 05:38 PM Eastern Time