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 -371→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
252627
1 Monoceros -371 2 Monoceros -371 3 Monoceros -371 4 Monoceros -371 5 Monoceros -371 6 Monoceros -371 7 Monoceros -371 8 Monoceros -371 9 Monoceros -371 10 Monoceros -371 11 Monoceros -371 12 Monoceros -371 13 Monoceros -371 14 Monoceros -371 15 Monoceros -371 16 Monoceros -371 17 Monoceros -371 18 Monoceros -371 19 Monoceros -371 20 Monoceros -371 21 Monoceros -371 22 Monoceros -371 23 Monoceros -371 24 Monoceros -371 25 Monoceros -371 26 Monoceros -371 27 Monoceros -371 2 Aquila -370 21 September 0912 22 September 0912 23 September 0912 24 September 0912 25 September 0912 26 September 0912 27 September 0912 28 September 0912 29 September 0912 30 September 0912 1 October 0912 2 October 0912 3 October 0912 4 October 0912 5 October 0912 6 October 0912 7 October 0912 8 October 0912 9 October 0912 10 October 0912 11 October 0912 12 October 0912 13 October 0912 14 October 0912 15 October 0912 16 October 0912 17 October 0912 18 October 0912 19 October 0912
MS -395546 MS -395547 MS -395548 MS -395549 MS -395550 MS -395551 MS -395552 MS -395553 MS -395554 MS -395555 MS -395556 MS -395557 MS -395558 MS -395559 MS -395560 MS -395561 MS -395562 MS -395563 MS -395564 MS -395565 MS -395566 MS -395567 MS -395568 MS -395569 MS -395570 MS -395571 MS -395572 MS -395518 MD -406543 MD -406542 MD -406541 MD -406540 MD -406539 MD -406538 MD -406537 MD -406536 MD -406535 MD -406534 MD -406533 MD -406532 MD -406531 MD -406530 MD -406529 MD -406528 MD -406527 MD -406526 MD -406525 MD -406524 MD -406523 MD -406522 MD -406521 MD -406520 MD -406519 MD -406518 MD -406517 MD -406516 MD -406515