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 -703→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
252627
1 Monoceros -703 2 Monoceros -703 3 Monoceros -703 4 Monoceros -703 5 Monoceros -703 6 Monoceros -703 7 Monoceros -703 8 Monoceros -703 9 Monoceros -703 10 Monoceros -703 11 Monoceros -703 12 Monoceros -703 13 Monoceros -703 14 Monoceros -703 15 Monoceros -703 16 Monoceros -703 17 Monoceros -703 18 Monoceros -703 19 Monoceros -703 20 Monoceros -703 21 Monoceros -703 22 Monoceros -703 23 Monoceros -703 24 Monoceros -703 25 Monoceros -703 26 Monoceros -703 27 Monoceros -703 1 Aquila -702 6 February 0288 7 February 0288 8 February 0288 9 February 0288 10 February 0288 11 February 0288 12 February 0288 13 February 0288 14 February 0288 15 February 0288 16 February 0288 17 February 0288 18 February 0288 19 February 0288 20 February 0288 21 February 0288 22 February 0288 23 February 0288 24 February 0288 25 February 0288 26 February 0288 27 February 0288 28 February 0288 29 February 0288 1 March 0288 2 March 0288 3 March 0288 4 March 0288 5 March 0288
MS -617519 MS -617520 MS -617521 MS -617522 MS -617523 MS -617524 MS -617525 MS -617526 MS -617527 MS -617528 MS -617529 MS -617530 MS -617531 MS -617532 MS -617533 MS -617534 MS -617535 MS -617536 MS -617537 MS -617538 MS -617539 MS -617540 MS -617541 MS -617542 MS -617543 MS -617544 MS -617545 MS -617491 MD -634682 MD -634681 MD -634680 MD -634679 MD -634678 MD -634677 MD -634676 MD -634675 MD -634674 MD -634673 MD -634672 MD -634671 MD -634670 MD -634669 MD -634668 MD -634667 MD -634666 MD -634665 MD -634664 MD -634663 MD -634662 MD -634661 MD -634660 MD -634659 MD -634658 MD -634657 MD -634656 MD -634655 MD -634654