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 206→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
2425262728
1 Cetus 206 2 Cetus 206 3 Cetus 206 4 Cetus 206 5 Cetus 206 6 Cetus 206 7 Cetus 206 8 Cetus 206 9 Cetus 206 10 Cetus 206 11 Cetus 206 12 Cetus 206 13 Cetus 206 14 Cetus 206 15 Cetus 206 16 Cetus 206 17 Cetus 206 18 Cetus 206 19 Cetus 206 20 Cetus 206 21 Cetus 206 22 Cetus 206 23 Cetus 206 24 Cetus 206 25 Cetus 206 26 Cetus 206 27 Cetus 206 28 Cetus 206 1 Dorado 206 23 November 1997 24 November 1997 25 November 1997 26 November 1997 27 November 1997 28 November 1997 29 November 1997 30 November 1997 1 December 1997 2 December 1997 3 December 1997 4 December 1997 5 December 1997 6 December 1997 7 December 1997 8 December 1997 9 December 1997 10 December 1997 11 December 1997 12 December 1997 13 December 1997 14 December 1997 15 December 1997 16 December 1997 17 December 1997 18 December 1997 19 December 1997 20 December 1997 21 December 1997 22 December 1997
MS -9907 MS -9906 MS -9905 MS -9904 MS -9903 MS -9902 MS -9901 MS -9900 MS -9899 MS -9898 MS -9897 MS -9896 MS -9895 MS -9894 MS -9893 MS -9892 MS -9891 MS -9890 MS -9889 MS -9888 MS -9887 MS -9886 MS -9885 MS -9884 MS -9883 MS -9882 MS -9881 MS -9880 MS -9879 MD -10192 MD -10191 MD -10190 MD -10189 MD -10188 MD -10187 MD -10186 MD -10185 MD -10184 MD -10183 MD -10182 MD -10181 MD -10180 MD -10179 MD -10178 MD -10177 MD -10176 MD -10175 MD -10174 MD -10173 MD -10172 MD -10171 MD -10170 MD -10169 MD -10168 MD -10167 MD -10166 MD -10165 MD -10164 MD -10163