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 -633→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
252627
1 Monoceros -633 2 Monoceros -633 3 Monoceros -633 4 Monoceros -633 5 Monoceros -633 6 Monoceros -633 7 Monoceros -633 8 Monoceros -633 9 Monoceros -633 10 Monoceros -633 11 Monoceros -633 12 Monoceros -633 13 Monoceros -633 14 Monoceros -633 15 Monoceros -633 16 Monoceros -633 17 Monoceros -633 18 Monoceros -633 19 Monoceros -633 20 Monoceros -633 21 Monoceros -633 22 Monoceros -633 23 Monoceros -633 24 Monoceros -633 25 Monoceros -633 26 Monoceros -633 27 Monoceros -633 1 Aquila -632 19 October 0419 20 October 0419 21 October 0419 22 October 0419 23 October 0419 24 October 0419 25 October 0419 26 October 0419 27 October 0419 28 October 0419 29 October 0419 30 October 0419 31 October 0419 1 November 0419 2 November 0419 3 November 0419 4 November 0419 5 November 0419 6 November 0419 7 November 0419 8 November 0419 9 November 0419 10 November 0419 11 November 0419 12 November 0419 13 November 0419 14 November 0419 15 November 0419 16 November 0419 17 November 0419
MS -570717 MS -570718 MS -570719 MS -570720 MS -570721 MS -570722 MS -570723 MS -570724 MS -570725 MS -570726 MS -570727 MS -570728 MS -570729 MS -570730 MS -570731 MS -570732 MS -570733 MS -570734 MS -570735 MS -570736 MS -570737 MS -570738 MS -570739 MS -570740 MS -570741 MS -570742 MS -570743 MS -570689 MD -586580 MD -586579 MD -586578 MD -586577 MD -586576 MD -586575 MD -586574 MD -586573 MD -586572 MD -586571 MD -586570 MD -586569 MD -586568 MD -586567 MD -586566 MD -586565 MD -586564 MD -586563 MD -586562 MD -586561 MD -586560 MD -586559 MD -586558 MD -586557 MD -586556 MD -586555 MD -586554 MD -586553 MD -586552 MD -586551