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 -296→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
252627
1 Monoceros -296 2 Monoceros -296 3 Monoceros -296 4 Monoceros -296 5 Monoceros -296 6 Monoceros -296 7 Monoceros -296 8 Monoceros -296 9 Monoceros -296 10 Monoceros -296 11 Monoceros -296 12 Monoceros -296 13 Monoceros -296 14 Monoceros -296 15 Monoceros -296 16 Monoceros -296 17 Monoceros -296 18 Monoceros -296 19 Monoceros -296 20 Monoceros -296 21 Monoceros -296 22 Monoceros -296 23 Monoceros -296 24 Monoceros -296 25 Monoceros -296 26 Monoceros -296 27 Monoceros -296 1 Aquila -295 30 October 1053 31 October 1053 1 November 1053 2 November 1053 3 November 1053 4 November 1053 5 November 1053 6 November 1053 7 November 1053 8 November 1053 9 November 1053 10 November 1053 11 November 1053 12 November 1053 13 November 1053 14 November 1053 15 November 1053 16 November 1053 17 November 1053 18 November 1053 19 November 1053 20 November 1053 21 November 1053 22 November 1053 23 November 1053 24 November 1053 25 November 1053 26 November 1053 27 November 1053
MS -345401 MS -345402 MS -345403 MS -345404 MS -345405 MS -345406 MS -345407 MS -345408 MS -345409 MS -345410 MS -345411 MS -345412 MS -345413 MS -345414 MS -345415 MS -345416 MS -345417 MS -345418 MS -345419 MS -345420 MS -345421 MS -345422 MS -345423 MS -345424 MS -345425 MS -345426 MS -345427 MS -345373 MD -355005 MD -355004 MD -355003 MD -355002 MD -355001 MD -355000 MD -354999 MD -354998 MD -354997 MD -354996 MD -354995 MD -354994 MD -354993 MD -354992 MD -354991 MD -354990 MD -354989 MD -354988 MD -354987 MD -354986 MD -354985 MD -354984 MD -354983 MD -354982 MD -354981 MD -354980 MD -354979 MD -354978 MD -354977