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 583→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28
1 Cetus 583 2 Cetus 583 3 Cetus 583 4 Cetus 583 5 Cetus 583 6 Cetus 583 7 Cetus 583 8 Cetus 583 9 Cetus 583 10 Cetus 583 11 Cetus 583 12 Cetus 583 13 Cetus 583 14 Cetus 583 15 Cetus 583 16 Cetus 583 17 Cetus 583 18 Cetus 583 19 Cetus 583 20 Cetus 583 21 Cetus 583 22 Cetus 583 23 Cetus 583 24 Cetus 583 25 Cetus 583 26 Cetus 583 27 Cetus 583 28 Cetus 583 1 Dorado 583 7 March 2707 8 March 2707 9 March 2707 10 March 2707 11 March 2707 12 March 2707 13 March 2707 14 March 2707 15 March 2707 16 March 2707 17 March 2707 18 March 2707 19 March 2707 20 March 2707 21 March 2707 22 March 2707 23 March 2707 24 March 2707 25 March 2707 26 March 2707 27 March 2707 28 March 2707 29 March 2707 30 March 2707 31 March 2707 1 April 2707 2 April 2707 3 April 2707 4 April 2707 5 April 2707
MS 242152 MS 242153 MS 242154 MS 242155 MS 242156 MS 242157 MS 242158 MS 242159 MS 242160 MS 242161 MS 242162 MS 242163 MS 242164 MS 242165 MS 242166 MS 242167 MS 242168 MS 242169 MS 242170 MS 242171 MS 242172 MS 242173 MS 242174 MS 242175 MS 242176 MS 242177 MS 242178 MS 242179 MS 242180 MD 248868 MD 248869 MD 248870 MD 248871 MD 248872 MD 248873 MD 248874 MD 248875 MD 248876 MD 248877 MD 248878 MD 248879 MD 248880 MD 248881 MD 248882 MD 248883 MD 248884 MD 248885 MD 248886 MD 248887 MD 248888 MD 248889 MD 248890 MD 248891 MD 248892 MD 248893 MD 248894 MD 248895 MD 248896 MD 248897