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 -230→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
252627
1 Monoceros -230 2 Monoceros -230 3 Monoceros -230 4 Monoceros -230 5 Monoceros -230 6 Monoceros -230 7 Monoceros -230 8 Monoceros -230 9 Monoceros -230 10 Monoceros -230 11 Monoceros -230 12 Monoceros -230 13 Monoceros -230 14 Monoceros -230 15 Monoceros -230 16 Monoceros -230 17 Monoceros -230 18 Monoceros -230 19 Monoceros -230 20 Monoceros -230 21 Monoceros -230 22 Monoceros -230 23 Monoceros -230 24 Monoceros -230 25 Monoceros -230 26 Monoceros -230 27 Monoceros -230 2 Aquila -229 31 December 1177 1 January 1178 2 January 1178 3 January 1178 4 January 1178 5 January 1178 6 January 1178 7 January 1178 8 January 1178 9 January 1178 10 January 1178 11 January 1178 12 January 1178 13 January 1178 14 January 1178 15 January 1178 16 January 1178 17 January 1178 18 January 1178 19 January 1178 20 January 1178 21 January 1178 22 January 1178 23 January 1178 24 January 1178 25 January 1178 26 January 1178 27 January 1178 28 January 1178 29 January 1178
MS -301274 MS -301275 MS -301276 MS -301277 MS -301278 MS -301279 MS -301280 MS -301281 MS -301282 MS -301283 MS -301284 MS -301285 MS -301286 MS -301287 MS -301288 MS -301289 MS -301290 MS -301291 MS -301292 MS -301293 MS -301294 MS -301295 MS -301296 MS -301297 MS -301298 MS -301299 MS -301300 MS -301246 MD -309653 MD -309652 MD -309651 MD -309650 MD -309649 MD -309648 MD -309647 MD -309646 MD -309645 MD -309644 MD -309643 MD -309642 MD -309641 MD -309640 MD -309639 MD -309638 MD -309637 MD -309636 MD -309635 MD -309634 MD -309633 MD -309632 MD -309631 MD -309630 MD -309629 MD -309628 MD -309627 MD -309626 MD -309625 MD -309624