From: 2016 Jan 01 To: 2016 Dec 31 Eastern Time Zone (75° west of Greenwich) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- GREATEST ELONGATIONS Planet Date Elongation Mag. d h m ° Mercury 2016 Feb 6 20 24 EST 25.5 West -0.1 Mercury 2016 Apr 18 9 59 EDT 19.9 East 0.0 Mercury 2016 Jun 5 4 46 EDT 24.2 West 0.5 Mercury 2016 Aug 16 17 21 EDT 27.4 East 0.2 Mercury 2016 Sep 28 15 27 EDT 17.9 West -0.5 Mercury 2016 Dec 10 23 39 EST 20.8 East -0.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONJUNCTIONS WITH SUN Geocentric Object Date Ecliptic Longitude Separation d h m ° ' " ° Mercury inferior 2016 Jan 14 9:05 EST 293 49 55 3.03 North Mercury superior 2016 Mar 23 16:11 EDT 3 37 29 1.29 South Mercury inferior* 2016 May 9 11:12 EDT 49 25 01 0.09 South Mercury superior 2016 Jul 6 23:24 EDT 105 27 02 1.39 North Mercury inferior 2016 Sep 12 19:40 EDT 170 37 18 3.39 South Mercury superior 2016 Oct 27 12:16 EDT 214 40 28 0.51 North Mercury inferior 2016 Dec 28 13:48 EST 277 28 30 2.44 North *At inferior conjuction on May 9, 2016, Mercury will transit the Sun between about 7:14 am and 2:41 pm EDT. Mid-transit is at 10:58 am, which is slightly different from the moment of inferior conjunction because Mercury's path is at a distinct angle to the ecliptic (the path of the sun) and it doesn't intersect the center of the sun. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Generated with the United States Naval Observatory's MICA 2.2.2 software