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 1155→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728
1 Cetus 1155 2 Cetus 1155 3 Cetus 1155 4 Cetus 1155 5 Cetus 1155 6 Cetus 1155 7 Cetus 1155 8 Cetus 1155 9 Cetus 1155 10 Cetus 1155 11 Cetus 1155 12 Cetus 1155 13 Cetus 1155 14 Cetus 1155 15 Cetus 1155 16 Cetus 1155 17 Cetus 1155 18 Cetus 1155 19 Cetus 1155 20 Cetus 1155 21 Cetus 1155 22 Cetus 1155 23 Cetus 1155 24 Cetus 1155 25 Cetus 1155 26 Cetus 1155 27 Cetus 1155 28 Cetus 1155 1 Dorado 1155 1 May 3783 2 May 3783 3 May 3783 4 May 3783 5 May 3783 6 May 3783 7 May 3783 8 May 3783 9 May 3783 10 May 3783 11 May 3783 12 May 3783 13 May 3783 14 May 3783 15 May 3783 16 May 3783 17 May 3783 18 May 3783 19 May 3783 20 May 3783 21 May 3783 22 May 3783 23 May 3783 24 May 3783 25 May 3783 26 May 3783 27 May 3783 28 May 3783 29 May 3783
MS 624585 MS 624586 MS 624587 MS 624588 MS 624589 MS 624590 MS 624591 MS 624592 MS 624593 MS 624594 MS 624595 MS 624596 MS 624597 MS 624598 MS 624599 MS 624600 MS 624601 MS 624602 MS 624603 MS 624604 MS 624605 MS 624606 MS 624607 MS 624608 MS 624609 MS 624610 MS 624611 MS 624612 MS 624613 MD 641925 MD 641926 MD 641927 MD 641928 MD 641929 MD 641930 MD 641931 MD 641932 MD 641933 MD 641934 MD 641935 MD 641936 MD 641937 MD 641938 MD 641939 MD 641940 MD 641941 MD 641942 MD 641943 MD 641944 MD 641945 MD 641946 MD 641947 MD 641948 MD 641949 MD 641950 MD 641951 MD 641952 MD 641953