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 -354→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
252627
1 Monoceros -354 2 Monoceros -354 3 Monoceros -354 4 Monoceros -354 5 Monoceros -354 6 Monoceros -354 7 Monoceros -354 8 Monoceros -354 9 Monoceros -354 10 Monoceros -354 11 Monoceros -354 12 Monoceros -354 13 Monoceros -354 14 Monoceros -354 15 Monoceros -354 16 Monoceros -354 17 Monoceros -354 18 Monoceros -354 19 Monoceros -354 20 Monoceros -354 21 Monoceros -354 22 Monoceros -354 23 Monoceros -354 24 Monoceros -354 25 Monoceros -354 26 Monoceros -354 27 Monoceros -354 1 Aquila -353 15 September 0944 16 September 0944 17 September 0944 18 September 0944 19 September 0944 20 September 0944 21 September 0944 22 September 0944 23 September 0944 24 September 0944 25 September 0944 26 September 0944 27 September 0944 28 September 0944 29 September 0944 30 September 0944 1 October 0944 2 October 0944 3 October 0944 4 October 0944 5 October 0944 6 October 0944 7 October 0944 8 October 0944 9 October 0944 10 October 0944 11 October 0944 12 October 0944 13 October 0944 14 October 0944
MS -384179 MS -384180 MS -384181 MS -384182 MS -384183 MS -384184 MS -384185 MS -384186 MS -384187 MS -384188 MS -384189 MS -384190 MS -384191 MS -384192 MS -384193 MS -384194 MS -384195 MS -384196 MS -384197 MS -384198 MS -384199 MS -384200 MS -384201 MS -384202 MS -384203 MS -384204 MS -384205 MS -384151 MD -394861 MD -394860 MD -394859 MD -394858 MD -394857 MD -394856 MD -394855 MD -394854 MD -394853 MD -394852 MD -394851 MD -394850 MD -394849 MD -394848 MD -394847 MD -394846 MD -394845 MD -394844 MD -394843 MD -394842 MD -394841 MD -394840 MD -394839 MD -394838 MD -394837 MD -394836 MD -394835 MD -394834 MD -394833 MD -394832