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 -544→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
252627
1 Monoceros -544 2 Monoceros -544 3 Monoceros -544 4 Monoceros -544 5 Monoceros -544 6 Monoceros -544 7 Monoceros -544 8 Monoceros -544 9 Monoceros -544 10 Monoceros -544 11 Monoceros -544 12 Monoceros -544 13 Monoceros -544 14 Monoceros -544 15 Monoceros -544 16 Monoceros -544 17 Monoceros -544 18 Monoceros -544 19 Monoceros -544 20 Monoceros -544 21 Monoceros -544 22 Monoceros -544 23 Monoceros -544 24 Monoceros -544 25 Monoceros -544 26 Monoceros -544 27 Monoceros -544 1 Aquila -543 30 March 0587 31 March 0587 1 April 0587 2 April 0587 3 April 0587 4 April 0587 5 April 0587 6 April 0587 7 April 0587 8 April 0587 9 April 0587 10 April 0587 11 April 0587 12 April 0587 13 April 0587 14 April 0587 15 April 0587 16 April 0587 17 April 0587 18 April 0587 19 April 0587 20 April 0587 21 April 0587 22 April 0587 23 April 0587 24 April 0587 25 April 0587 26 April 0587 27 April 0587
MS -511212 MS -511213 MS -511214 MS -511215 MS -511216 MS -511217 MS -511218 MS -511219 MS -511220 MS -511221 MS -511222 MS -511223 MS -511224 MS -511225 MS -511226 MS -511227 MS -511228 MS -511229 MS -511230 MS -511231 MS -511232 MS -511233 MS -511234 MS -511235 MS -511236 MS -511237 MS -511238 MS -511184 MD -525422 MD -525421 MD -525420 MD -525419 MD -525418 MD -525417 MD -525416 MD -525415 MD -525414 MD -525413 MD -525412 MD -525411 MD -525410 MD -525409 MD -525408 MD -525407 MD -525406 MD -525405 MD -525404 MD -525403 MD -525402 MD -525401 MD -525400 MD -525399 MD -525398 MD -525397 MD -525396 MD -525395 MD -525394