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 -652→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728
1 Cetus -652 2 Cetus -652 3 Cetus -652 4 Cetus -652 5 Cetus -652 6 Cetus -652 7 Cetus -652 8 Cetus -652 9 Cetus -652 10 Cetus -652 11 Cetus -652 12 Cetus -652 13 Cetus -652 14 Cetus -652 15 Cetus -652 16 Cetus -652 17 Cetus -652 18 Cetus -652 19 Cetus -652 20 Cetus -652 21 Cetus -652 22 Cetus -652 23 Cetus -652 24 Cetus -652 25 Cetus -652 26 Cetus -652 27 Cetus -652 28 Cetus -652 1 Grus -651 28 September 0383 29 September 0383 30 September 0383 1 October 0383 2 October 0383 3 October 0383 4 October 0383 5 October 0383 6 October 0383 7 October 0383 8 October 0383 9 October 0383 10 October 0383 11 October 0383 12 October 0383 13 October 0383 14 October 0383 15 October 0383 16 October 0383 17 October 0383 18 October 0383 19 October 0383 20 October 0383 21 October 0383 22 October 0383 23 October 0383 24 October 0383 25 October 0383 26 October 0383 27 October 0383
MS -583531 MS -583532 MS -583533 MS -583534 MS -583535 MS -583536 MS -583537 MS -583538 MS -583539 MS -583540 MS -583541 MS -583542 MS -583543 MS -583544 MS -583545 MS -583546 MS -583547 MS -583548 MS -583549 MS -583550 MS -583551 MS -583552 MS -583553 MS -583554 MS -583555 MS -583556 MS -583557 MS -583558 MS -583503 MD -599750 MD -599749 MD -599748 MD -599747 MD -599746 MD -599745 MD -599744 MD -599743 MD -599742 MD -599741 MD -599740 MD -599739 MD -599738 MD -599737 MD -599736 MD -599735 MD -599734 MD -599733 MD -599732 MD -599731 MD -599730 MD -599729 MD -599728 MD -599727 MD -599726 MD -599725 MD -599724 MD -599723 MD -599722 MD -599721