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 890→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728
1 Cetus 890 2 Cetus 890 3 Cetus 890 4 Cetus 890 5 Cetus 890 6 Cetus 890 7 Cetus 890 8 Cetus 890 9 Cetus 890 10 Cetus 890 11 Cetus 890 12 Cetus 890 13 Cetus 890 14 Cetus 890 15 Cetus 890 16 Cetus 890 17 Cetus 890 18 Cetus 890 19 Cetus 890 20 Cetus 890 21 Cetus 890 22 Cetus 890 23 Cetus 890 24 Cetus 890 25 Cetus 890 26 Cetus 890 27 Cetus 890 28 Cetus 890 1 Dorado 890 5 October 3284 6 October 3284 7 October 3284 8 October 3284 9 October 3284 10 October 3284 11 October 3284 12 October 3284 13 October 3284 14 October 3284 15 October 3284 16 October 3284 17 October 3284 18 October 3284 19 October 3284 20 October 3284 21 October 3284 22 October 3284 23 October 3284 24 October 3284 25 October 3284 26 October 3284 27 October 3284 28 October 3284 29 October 3284 30 October 3284 31 October 3284 1 November 3284 2 November 3284 3 November 3284
MS 447409 MS 447410 MS 447411 MS 447412 MS 447413 MS 447414 MS 447415 MS 447416 MS 447417 MS 447418 MS 447419 MS 447420 MS 447421 MS 447422 MS 447423 MS 447424 MS 447425 MS 447426 MS 447427 MS 447428 MS 447429 MS 447430 MS 447431 MS 447432 MS 447433 MS 447434 MS 447435 MS 447436 MS 447437 MD 459827 MD 459828 MD 459829 MD 459830 MD 459831 MD 459832 MD 459833 MD 459834 MD 459835 MD 459836 MD 459837 MD 459838 MD 459839 MD 459840 MD 459841 MD 459842 MD 459843 MD 459844 MD 459845 MD 459846 MD 459847 MD 459848 MD 459849 MD 459850 MD 459851 MD 459852 MD 459853 MD 459854 MD 459855 MD 459856