IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine (Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg)
Cetus
The Sea Monster/The Whale
OriginAncient
AbbreviationCet
GenitiveCeti
Pronunciation/ˈsiːtəs/ SEE-təss genitive /ˈsiːtaɪ/ SEE-tye
SEE-tus
LocationCelestial Equator
Primary StarDiphda (β Cet)
Right Ascention 0h 44m Declination -17° 59'
Martian Solar Lag δ(🜨→♂) +0.021 h (1.3 min)
Cetus was the sea-monster sent by Poseidon to ravage Aethiopia as punishment for Queen Cassiopia’s boast that her daughter Andromeda was more beautiful than the Nereids. King Cepheus offered his daughter as sacrifice to Cetus to appease it, but the hero Perseus killed the creature to save her.
www.underthesky.com
Cetus as depicted by Johann Bayer in his Uranometria (1603). Source image provided by www.RareMaps.com — Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc. Via www.underthenightsky.com.
←Cetus -212→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728
1 Cetus -212 2 Cetus -212 3 Cetus -212 4 Cetus -212 5 Cetus -212 6 Cetus -212 7 Cetus -212 8 Cetus -212 9 Cetus -212 10 Cetus -212 11 Cetus -212 12 Cetus -212 13 Cetus -212 14 Cetus -212 15 Cetus -212 16 Cetus -212 17 Cetus -212 18 Cetus -212 19 Cetus -212 20 Cetus -212 21 Cetus -212 22 Cetus -212 23 Cetus -212 24 Cetus -212 25 Cetus -212 26 Cetus -212 27 Cetus -212 28 Cetus -212 1 Grus -211 22 July 1211 23 July 1211 24 July 1211 25 July 1211 26 July 1211 27 July 1211 28 July 1211 29 July 1211 30 July 1211 31 July 1211 1 August 1211 2 August 1211 3 August 1211 4 August 1211 5 August 1211 6 August 1211 7 August 1211 8 August 1211 9 August 1211 10 August 1211 11 August 1211 12 August 1211 13 August 1211 14 August 1211 15 August 1211 16 August 1211 17 August 1211 18 August 1211 19 August 1211
MS -289350 MS -289351 MS -289352 MS -289353 MS -289354 MS -289355 MS -289356 MS -289357 MS -289358 MS -289359 MS -289360 MS -289361 MS -289362 MS -289363 MS -289364 MS -289365 MS -289366 MS -289367 MS -289368 MS -289369 MS -289370 MS -289371 MS -289372 MS -289373 MS -289374 MS -289375 MS -289376 MS -289377 MS -289322 MD -297397 MD -297396 MD -297395 MD -297394 MD -297393 MD -297392 MD -297391 MD -297390 MD -297389 MD -297388 MD -297387 MD -297386 MD -297385 MD -297384 MD -297383 MD -297382 MD -297381 MD -297380 MD -297379 MD -297378 MD -297377 MD -297376 MD -297375 MD -297374 MD -297373 MD -297372 MD -297371 MD -297370 MD -297369