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 966→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728
1 Cetus 966 2 Cetus 966 3 Cetus 966 4 Cetus 966 5 Cetus 966 6 Cetus 966 7 Cetus 966 8 Cetus 966 9 Cetus 966 10 Cetus 966 11 Cetus 966 12 Cetus 966 13 Cetus 966 14 Cetus 966 15 Cetus 966 16 Cetus 966 17 Cetus 966 18 Cetus 966 19 Cetus 966 20 Cetus 966 21 Cetus 966 22 Cetus 966 23 Cetus 966 24 Cetus 966 25 Cetus 966 26 Cetus 966 27 Cetus 966 28 Cetus 966 1 Dorado 966 2 October 3427 3 October 3427 4 October 3427 5 October 3427 6 October 3427 7 October 3427 8 October 3427 9 October 3427 10 October 3427 11 October 3427 12 October 3427 13 October 3427 14 October 3427 15 October 3427 16 October 3427 17 October 3427 18 October 3427 19 October 3427 20 October 3427 21 October 3427 22 October 3427 23 October 3427 24 October 3427 25 October 3427 26 October 3427 27 October 3427 28 October 3427 29 October 3427 30 October 3427
MS 498222 MS 498223 MS 498224 MS 498225 MS 498226 MS 498227 MS 498228 MS 498229 MS 498230 MS 498231 MS 498232 MS 498233 MS 498234 MS 498235 MS 498236 MS 498237 MS 498238 MS 498239 MS 498240 MS 498241 MS 498242 MS 498243 MS 498244 MS 498245 MS 498246 MS 498247 MS 498248 MS 498249 MS 498250 MD 512052 MD 512053 MD 512054 MD 512055 MD 512056 MD 512057 MD 512058 MD 512059 MD 512060 MD 512061 MD 512062 MD 512063 MD 512064 MD 512065 MD 512066 MD 512067 MD 512068 MD 512069 MD 512070 MD 512071 MD 512072 MD 512073 MD 512074 MD 512075 MD 512076 MD 512077 MD 512078 MD 512079 MD 512080