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 -609→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
252627
1 Monoceros -609 2 Monoceros -609 3 Monoceros -609 4 Monoceros -609 5 Monoceros -609 6 Monoceros -609 7 Monoceros -609 8 Monoceros -609 9 Monoceros -609 10 Monoceros -609 11 Monoceros -609 12 Monoceros -609 13 Monoceros -609 14 Monoceros -609 15 Monoceros -609 16 Monoceros -609 17 Monoceros -609 18 Monoceros -609 19 Monoceros -609 20 Monoceros -609 21 Monoceros -609 22 Monoceros -609 23 Monoceros -609 24 Monoceros -609 25 Monoceros -609 26 Monoceros -609 27 Monoceros -609 1 Aquila -608 14 December 0464 15 December 0464 16 December 0464 17 December 0464 18 December 0464 19 December 0464 20 December 0464 21 December 0464 22 December 0464 23 December 0464 24 December 0464 25 December 0464 26 December 0464 27 December 0464 28 December 0464 29 December 0464 30 December 0464 31 December 0464 1 January 0465 2 January 0465 3 January 0465 4 January 0465 5 January 0465 6 January 0465 7 January 0465 8 January 0465 9 January 0465 10 January 0465 11 January 0465
MS -554670 MS -554671 MS -554672 MS -554673 MS -554674 MS -554675 MS -554676 MS -554677 MS -554678 MS -554679 MS -554680 MS -554681 MS -554682 MS -554683 MS -554684 MS -554685 MS -554686 MS -554687 MS -554688 MS -554689 MS -554690 MS -554691 MS -554692 MS -554693 MS -554694 MS -554695 MS -554696 MS -554642 MD -570087 MD -570086 MD -570085 MD -570084 MD -570083 MD -570082 MD -570081 MD -570080 MD -570079 MD -570078 MD -570077 MD -570076 MD -570075 MD -570074 MD -570073 MD -570072 MD -570071 MD -570070 MD -570069 MD -570068 MD -570067 MD -570066 MD -570065 MD -570064 MD -570063 MD -570062 MD -570061 MD -570060 MD -570059