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 761→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728
1 Cetus 761 2 Cetus 761 3 Cetus 761 4 Cetus 761 5 Cetus 761 6 Cetus 761 7 Cetus 761 8 Cetus 761 9 Cetus 761 10 Cetus 761 11 Cetus 761 12 Cetus 761 13 Cetus 761 14 Cetus 761 15 Cetus 761 16 Cetus 761 17 Cetus 761 18 Cetus 761 19 Cetus 761 20 Cetus 761 21 Cetus 761 22 Cetus 761 23 Cetus 761 24 Cetus 761 25 Cetus 761 26 Cetus 761 27 Cetus 761 28 Cetus 761 1 Dorado 761 24 January 3042 25 January 3042 26 January 3042 27 January 3042 28 January 3042 29 January 3042 30 January 3042 31 January 3042 1 February 3042 2 February 3042 3 February 3042 4 February 3042 5 February 3042 6 February 3042 7 February 3042 8 February 3042 9 February 3042 10 February 3042 11 February 3042 12 February 3042 13 February 3042 14 February 3042 15 February 3042 16 February 3042 17 February 3042 18 February 3042 19 February 3042 20 February 3042 21 February 3042 22 February 3042
MS 361161 MS 361162 MS 361163 MS 361164 MS 361165 MS 361166 MS 361167 MS 361168 MS 361169 MS 361170 MS 361171 MS 361172 MS 361173 MS 361174 MS 361175 MS 361176 MS 361177 MS 361178 MS 361179 MS 361180 MS 361181 MS 361182 MS 361183 MS 361184 MS 361185 MS 361186 MS 361187 MS 361188 MS 361189 MD 371183 MD 371184 MD 371185 MD 371186 MD 371187 MD 371188 MD 371189 MD 371190 MD 371191 MD 371192 MD 371193 MD 371194 MD 371195 MD 371196 MD 371197 MD 371198 MD 371199 MD 371200 MD 371201 MD 371202 MD 371203 MD 371204 MD 371205 MD 371206 MD 371207 MD 371208 MD 371209 MD 371210 MD 371211 MD 371212