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 -654→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
252627
1 Monoceros -654 2 Monoceros -654 3 Monoceros -654 4 Monoceros -654 5 Monoceros -654 6 Monoceros -654 7 Monoceros -654 8 Monoceros -654 9 Monoceros -654 10 Monoceros -654 11 Monoceros -654 12 Monoceros -654 13 Monoceros -654 14 Monoceros -654 15 Monoceros -654 16 Monoceros -654 17 Monoceros -654 18 Monoceros -654 19 Monoceros -654 20 Monoceros -654 21 Monoceros -654 22 Monoceros -654 23 Monoceros -654 24 Monoceros -654 25 Monoceros -654 26 Monoceros -654 27 Monoceros -654 1 Aquila -653 16 April 0380 17 April 0380 18 April 0380 19 April 0380 20 April 0380 21 April 0380 22 April 0380 23 April 0380 24 April 0380 25 April 0380 26 April 0380 27 April 0380 28 April 0380 29 April 0380 30 April 0380 1 May 0380 2 May 0380 3 May 0380 4 May 0380 5 May 0380 6 May 0380 7 May 0380 8 May 0380 9 May 0380 10 May 0380 11 May 0380 12 May 0380 13 May 0380 14 May 0380 15 May 0380
MS -584757 MS -584758 MS -584759 MS -584760 MS -584761 MS -584762 MS -584763 MS -584764 MS -584765 MS -584766 MS -584767 MS -584768 MS -584769 MS -584770 MS -584771 MS -584772 MS -584773 MS -584774 MS -584775 MS -584776 MS -584777 MS -584778 MS -584779 MS -584780 MS -584781 MS -584782 MS -584783 MS -584729 MD -601010 MD -601009 MD -601008 MD -601007 MD -601006 MD -601005 MD -601004 MD -601003 MD -601002 MD -601001 MD -601000 MD -600999 MD -600998 MD -600997 MD -600996 MD -600995 MD -600994 MD -600993 MD -600992 MD -600991 MD -600990 MD -600989 MD -600988 MD -600987 MD -600986 MD -600985 MD -600984 MD -600983 MD -600982 MD -600981