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 776→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28
1 Cetus 776 2 Cetus 776 3 Cetus 776 4 Cetus 776 5 Cetus 776 6 Cetus 776 7 Cetus 776 8 Cetus 776 9 Cetus 776 10 Cetus 776 11 Cetus 776 12 Cetus 776 13 Cetus 776 14 Cetus 776 15 Cetus 776 16 Cetus 776 17 Cetus 776 18 Cetus 776 19 Cetus 776 20 Cetus 776 21 Cetus 776 22 Cetus 776 23 Cetus 776 24 Cetus 776 25 Cetus 776 26 Cetus 776 27 Cetus 776 28 Cetus 776 1 Dorado 776 15 April 3070 16 April 3070 17 April 3070 18 April 3070 19 April 3070 20 April 3070 21 April 3070 22 April 3070 23 April 3070 24 April 3070 25 April 3070 26 April 3070 27 April 3070 28 April 3070 29 April 3070 30 April 3070 1 May 3070 2 May 3070 3 May 3070 4 May 3070 5 May 3070 6 May 3070 7 May 3070 8 May 3070 9 May 3070 10 May 3070 11 May 3070 12 May 3070 13 May 3070 14 May 3070
MS 371190 MS 371191 MS 371192 MS 371193 MS 371194 MS 371195 MS 371196 MS 371197 MS 371198 MS 371199 MS 371200 MS 371201 MS 371202 MS 371203 MS 371204 MS 371205 MS 371206 MS 371207 MS 371208 MS 371209 MS 371210 MS 371211 MS 371212 MS 371213 MS 371214 MS 371215 MS 371216 MS 371217 MS 371218 MD 381491 MD 381492 MD 381493 MD 381494 MD 381495 MD 381496 MD 381497 MD 381498 MD 381499 MD 381500 MD 381501 MD 381502 MD 381503 MD 381504 MD 381505 MD 381506 MD 381507 MD 381508 MD 381509 MD 381510 MD 381511 MD 381512 MD 381513 MD 381514 MD 381515 MD 381516 MD 381517 MD 381518 MD 381519 MD 381520