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 -615→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728
1 Cetus -615 2 Cetus -615 3 Cetus -615 4 Cetus -615 5 Cetus -615 6 Cetus -615 7 Cetus -615 8 Cetus -615 9 Cetus -615 10 Cetus -615 11 Cetus -615 12 Cetus -615 13 Cetus -615 14 Cetus -615 15 Cetus -615 16 Cetus -615 17 Cetus -615 18 Cetus -615 19 Cetus -615 20 Cetus -615 21 Cetus -615 22 Cetus -615 23 Cetus -615 24 Cetus -615 25 Cetus -615 26 Cetus -615 27 Cetus -615 28 Cetus -615 1 Grus -614 8 May 0453 9 May 0453 10 May 0453 11 May 0453 12 May 0453 13 May 0453 14 May 0453 15 May 0453 16 May 0453 17 May 0453 18 May 0453 19 May 0453 20 May 0453 21 May 0453 22 May 0453 23 May 0453 24 May 0453 25 May 0453 26 May 0453 27 May 0453 28 May 0453 29 May 0453 30 May 0453 31 May 0453 1 June 0453 2 June 0453 3 June 0453 4 June 0453 5 June 0453 6 June 0453
MS -558793 MS -558794 MS -558795 MS -558796 MS -558797 MS -558798 MS -558799 MS -558800 MS -558801 MS -558802 MS -558803 MS -558804 MS -558805 MS -558806 MS -558807 MS -558808 MS -558809 MS -558810 MS -558811 MS -558812 MS -558813 MS -558814 MS -558815 MS -558816 MS -558817 MS -558818 MS -558819 MS -558820 MS -558765 MD -574325 MD -574324 MD -574323 MD -574322 MD -574321 MD -574320 MD -574319 MD -574318 MD -574317 MD -574316 MD -574315 MD -574314 MD -574313 MD -574312 MD -574311 MD -574310 MD -574309 MD -574308 MD -574307 MD -574306 MD -574305 MD -574304 MD -574303 MD -574302 MD -574301 MD -574300 MD -574299 MD -574298 MD -574297 MD -574296