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 710→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28
1 Cetus 710 2 Cetus 710 3 Cetus 710 4 Cetus 710 5 Cetus 710 6 Cetus 710 7 Cetus 710 8 Cetus 710 9 Cetus 710 10 Cetus 710 11 Cetus 710 12 Cetus 710 13 Cetus 710 14 Cetus 710 15 Cetus 710 16 Cetus 710 17 Cetus 710 18 Cetus 710 19 Cetus 710 20 Cetus 710 21 Cetus 710 22 Cetus 710 23 Cetus 710 24 Cetus 710 25 Cetus 710 26 Cetus 710 27 Cetus 710 28 Cetus 710 1 Dorado 710 10 February 2946 11 February 2946 12 February 2946 13 February 2946 14 February 2946 15 February 2946 16 February 2946 17 February 2946 18 February 2946 19 February 2946 20 February 2946 21 February 2946 22 February 2946 23 February 2946 24 February 2946 25 February 2946 26 February 2946 27 February 2946 28 February 2946 1 March 2946 2 March 2946 3 March 2946 4 March 2946 5 March 2946 6 March 2946 7 March 2946 8 March 2946 9 March 2946 10 March 2946 11 March 2946
MS 327062 MS 327063 MS 327064 MS 327065 MS 327066 MS 327067 MS 327068 MS 327069 MS 327070 MS 327071 MS 327072 MS 327073 MS 327074 MS 327075 MS 327076 MS 327077 MS 327078 MS 327079 MS 327080 MS 327081 MS 327082 MS 327083 MS 327084 MS 327085 MS 327086 MS 327087 MS 327088 MS 327089 MS 327090 MD 336137 MD 336138 MD 336139 MD 336140 MD 336141 MD 336142 MD 336143 MD 336144 MD 336145 MD 336146 MD 336147 MD 336148 MD 336149 MD 336150 MD 336151 MD 336152 MD 336153 MD 336154 MD 336155 MD 336156 MD 336157 MD 336158 MD 336159 MD 336160 MD 336161 MD 336162 MD 336163 MD 336164 MD 336165 MD 336166