IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine (Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg)
Monoceros
The Unicorn
OriginAncient
AbbreviationMon
GenitiveMonocerotis
Pronunciation/məˈnɒsɪrəs/ genitive /məˌnɒsɪˈroʊtɪs/
muh-NAH-ser-us
LocationCelestial Equator
Primary Starβ Monocerotis
Right Ascention 6h 28m Declination -7° 02'
Martian Solar Lag δ(🜨→♂) +0.186 h (11.2 min)
Monoceros, a modern constellation, was created by Dutch astronomer Petrus Plancius in the seventeenth century. It represents the mythical unicorn, a single-horned animal, which appears several times in the Bible. This star group was introduced in 1612 on a star globe created by Plancius. He also invented the constellation Camelopardalis.
www.underthesky.com
Monoceros as depicted by Johannes Hevelius in his Firmamentum Sobiescianum sive Uranographia (1687). Source image provided by www.RareMaps.com — Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc. Via www.underthenightsky.com.
←Monoceros -194→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
252627
1 Monoceros -194 2 Monoceros -194 3 Monoceros -194 4 Monoceros -194 5 Monoceros -194 6 Monoceros -194 7 Monoceros -194 8 Monoceros -194 9 Monoceros -194 10 Monoceros -194 11 Monoceros -194 12 Monoceros -194 13 Monoceros -194 14 Monoceros -194 15 Monoceros -194 16 Monoceros -194 17 Monoceros -194 18 Monoceros -194 19 Monoceros -194 20 Monoceros -194 21 Monoceros -194 22 Monoceros -194 23 Monoceros -194 24 Monoceros -194 25 Monoceros -194 26 Monoceros -194 27 Monoceros -194 1 Aquila -193 24 September 1245 25 September 1245 26 September 1245 27 September 1245 28 September 1245 29 September 1245 30 September 1245 1 October 1245 2 October 1245 3 October 1245 4 October 1245 5 October 1245 6 October 1245 7 October 1245 8 October 1245 9 October 1245 10 October 1245 11 October 1245 12 October 1245 13 October 1245 14 October 1245 15 October 1245 16 October 1245 17 October 1245 18 October 1245 19 October 1245 20 October 1245 21 October 1245 22 October 1245 23 October 1245
MS -277204 MS -277205 MS -277206 MS -277207 MS -277208 MS -277209 MS -277210 MS -277211 MS -277212 MS -277213 MS -277214 MS -277215 MS -277216 MS -277217 MS -277218 MS -277219 MS -277220 MS -277221 MS -277222 MS -277223 MS -277224 MS -277225 MS -277226 MS -277227 MS -277228 MS -277229 MS -277230 MS -277176 MD -284914 MD -284913 MD -284912 MD -284911 MD -284910 MD -284909 MD -284908 MD -284907 MD -284906 MD -284905 MD -284904 MD -284903 MD -284902 MD -284901 MD -284900 MD -284899 MD -284898 MD -284897 MD -284896 MD -284895 MD -284894 MD -284893 MD -284892 MD -284891 MD -284890 MD -284889 MD -284888 MD -284887 MD -284886 MD -284885