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 -829→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728
1 Cetus -829 2 Cetus -829 3 Cetus -829 4 Cetus -829 5 Cetus -829 6 Cetus -829 7 Cetus -829 8 Cetus -829 9 Cetus -829 10 Cetus -829 11 Cetus -829 12 Cetus -829 13 Cetus -829 14 Cetus -829 15 Cetus -829 16 Cetus -829 17 Cetus -829 18 Cetus -829 19 Cetus -829 20 Cetus -829 21 Cetus -829 22 Cetus -829 23 Cetus -829 24 Cetus -829 25 Cetus -829 26 Cetus -829 27 Cetus -829 28 Cetus -829 1 Grus -828 25 September 0050 26 September 0050 27 September 0050 28 September 0050 29 September 0050 30 September 0050 1 October 0050 2 October 0050 3 October 0050 4 October 0050 5 October 0050 6 October 0050 7 October 0050 8 October 0050 9 October 0050 10 October 0050 11 October 0050 12 October 0050 13 October 0050 14 October 0050 15 October 0050 16 October 0050 17 October 0050 18 October 0050 19 October 0050 20 October 0050 21 October 0050 22 October 0050 23 October 0050
MS -701872 MS -701873 MS -701874 MS -701875 MS -701876 MS -701877 MS -701878 MS -701879 MS -701880 MS -701881 MS -701882 MS -701883 MS -701884 MS -701885 MS -701886 MS -701887 MS -701888 MS -701889 MS -701890 MS -701891 MS -701892 MS -701893 MS -701894 MS -701895 MS -701896 MS -701897 MS -701898 MS -701899 MS -701844 MD -721378 MD -721377 MD -721376 MD -721375 MD -721374 MD -721373 MD -721372 MD -721371 MD -721370 MD -721369 MD -721368 MD -721367 MD -721366 MD -721365 MD -721364 MD -721363 MD -721362 MD -721361 MD -721360 MD -721359 MD -721358 MD -721357 MD -721356 MD -721355 MD -721354 MD -721353 MD -721352 MD -721351 MD -721350