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 461→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728
1 Cetus 461 2 Cetus 461 3 Cetus 461 4 Cetus 461 5 Cetus 461 6 Cetus 461 7 Cetus 461 8 Cetus 461 9 Cetus 461 10 Cetus 461 11 Cetus 461 12 Cetus 461 13 Cetus 461 14 Cetus 461 15 Cetus 461 16 Cetus 461 17 Cetus 461 18 Cetus 461 19 Cetus 461 20 Cetus 461 21 Cetus 461 22 Cetus 461 23 Cetus 461 24 Cetus 461 25 Cetus 461 26 Cetus 461 27 Cetus 461 28 Cetus 461 1 Dorado 461 25 August 2477 26 August 2477 27 August 2477 28 August 2477 29 August 2477 30 August 2477 31 August 2477 1 September 2477 2 September 2477 3 September 2477 4 September 2477 5 September 2477 6 September 2477 7 September 2477 8 September 2477 9 September 2477 10 September 2477 11 September 2477 12 September 2477 13 September 2477 14 September 2477 15 September 2477 16 September 2477 17 September 2477 18 September 2477 19 September 2477 20 September 2477 21 September 2477 22 September 2477 23 September 2477
MS 160584 MS 160585 MS 160586 MS 160587 MS 160588 MS 160589 MS 160590 MS 160591 MS 160592 MS 160593 MS 160594 MS 160595 MS 160596 MS 160597 MS 160598 MS 160599 MS 160600 MS 160601 MS 160602 MS 160603 MS 160604 MS 160605 MS 160606 MS 160607 MS 160608 MS 160609 MS 160610 MS 160611 MS 160612 MD 165035 MD 165036 MD 165037 MD 165038 MD 165039 MD 165040 MD 165041 MD 165042 MD 165043 MD 165044 MD 165045 MD 165046 MD 165047 MD 165048 MD 165049 MD 165050 MD 165051 MD 165052 MD 165053 MD 165054 MD 165055 MD 165056 MD 165057 MD 165058 MD 165059 MD 165060 MD 165061 MD 165062 MD 165063 MD 165064