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 -457→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
252627
1 Monoceros -457 2 Monoceros -457 3 Monoceros -457 4 Monoceros -457 5 Monoceros -457 6 Monoceros -457 7 Monoceros -457 8 Monoceros -457 9 Monoceros -457 10 Monoceros -457 11 Monoceros -457 12 Monoceros -457 13 Monoceros -457 14 Monoceros -457 15 Monoceros -457 16 Monoceros -457 17 Monoceros -457 18 Monoceros -457 19 Monoceros -457 20 Monoceros -457 21 Monoceros -457 22 Monoceros -457 23 Monoceros -457 24 Monoceros -457 25 Monoceros -457 26 Monoceros -457 27 Monoceros -457 1 Aquila -456 4 December 0750 5 December 0750 6 December 0750 7 December 0750 8 December 0750 9 December 0750 10 December 0750 11 December 0750 12 December 0750 13 December 0750 14 December 0750 15 December 0750 16 December 0750 17 December 0750 18 December 0750 19 December 0750 20 December 0750 21 December 0750 22 December 0750 23 December 0750 24 December 0750 25 December 0750 26 December 0750 27 December 0750 28 December 0750 29 December 0750 30 December 0750 31 December 0750 1 January 0751 2 January 0751
MS -453044 MS -453045 MS -453046 MS -453047 MS -453048 MS -453049 MS -453050 MS -453051 MS -453052 MS -453053 MS -453054 MS -453055 MS -453056 MS -453057 MS -453058 MS -453059 MS -453060 MS -453061 MS -453062 MS -453063 MS -453064 MS -453065 MS -453066 MS -453067 MS -453068 MS -453069 MS -453070 MS -453016 MD -465639 MD -465638 MD -465637 MD -465636 MD -465635 MD -465634 MD -465633 MD -465632 MD -465631 MD -465630 MD -465629 MD -465628 MD -465627 MD -465626 MD -465625 MD -465624 MD -465623 MD -465622 MD -465621 MD -465620 MD -465619 MD -465618 MD -465617 MD -465616 MD -465615 MD -465614 MD -465613 MD -465612 MD -465611 MD -465610