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 -705→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728
1 Cetus -705 2 Cetus -705 3 Cetus -705 4 Cetus -705 5 Cetus -705 6 Cetus -705 7 Cetus -705 8 Cetus -705 9 Cetus -705 10 Cetus -705 11 Cetus -705 12 Cetus -705 13 Cetus -705 14 Cetus -705 15 Cetus -705 16 Cetus -705 17 Cetus -705 18 Cetus -705 19 Cetus -705 20 Cetus -705 21 Cetus -705 22 Cetus -705 23 Cetus -705 24 Cetus -705 25 Cetus -705 26 Cetus -705 27 Cetus -705 28 Cetus -705 1 Grus -704 9 January 0284 10 January 0284 11 January 0284 12 January 0284 13 January 0284 14 January 0284 15 January 0284 16 January 0284 17 January 0284 18 January 0284 19 January 0284 20 January 0284 21 January 0284 22 January 0284 23 January 0284 24 January 0284 25 January 0284 26 January 0284 27 January 0284 28 January 0284 29 January 0284 30 January 0284 31 January 0284 1 February 0284 2 February 0284 3 February 0284 4 February 0284 5 February 0284 6 February 0284 7 February 0284
MS -618967 MS -618968 MS -618969 MS -618970 MS -618971 MS -618972 MS -618973 MS -618974 MS -618975 MS -618976 MS -618977 MS -618978 MS -618979 MS -618980 MS -618981 MS -618982 MS -618983 MS -618984 MS -618985 MS -618986 MS -618987 MS -618988 MS -618989 MS -618990 MS -618991 MS -618992 MS -618993 MS -618994 MS -618939 MD -636171 MD -636170 MD -636169 MD -636168 MD -636167 MD -636166 MD -636165 MD -636164 MD -636163 MD -636162 MD -636161 MD -636160 MD -636159 MD -636158 MD -636157 MD -636156 MD -636155 MD -636154 MD -636153 MD -636152 MD -636151 MD -636150 MD -636149 MD -636148 MD -636147 MD -636146 MD -636145 MD -636144 MD -636143 MD -636142