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 -710→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
252627
1 Monoceros -710 2 Monoceros -710 3 Monoceros -710 4 Monoceros -710 5 Monoceros -710 6 Monoceros -710 7 Monoceros -710 8 Monoceros -710 9 Monoceros -710 10 Monoceros -710 11 Monoceros -710 12 Monoceros -710 13 Monoceros -710 14 Monoceros -710 15 Monoceros -710 16 Monoceros -710 17 Monoceros -710 18 Monoceros -710 19 Monoceros -710 20 Monoceros -710 21 Monoceros -710 22 Monoceros -710 23 Monoceros -710 24 Monoceros -710 25 Monoceros -710 26 Monoceros -710 27 Monoceros -710 2 Aquila -709 6 December 0274 7 December 0274 8 December 0274 9 December 0274 10 December 0274 11 December 0274 12 December 0274 13 December 0274 14 December 0274 15 December 0274 16 December 0274 17 December 0274 18 December 0274 19 December 0274 20 December 0274 21 December 0274 22 December 0274 23 December 0274 24 December 0274 25 December 0274 26 December 0274 27 December 0274 28 December 0274 29 December 0274 30 December 0274 31 December 0274 1 January 0275 2 January 0275 3 January 0275
MS -622199 MS -622200 MS -622201 MS -622202 MS -622203 MS -622204 MS -622205 MS -622206 MS -622207 MS -622208 MS -622209 MS -622210 MS -622211 MS -622212 MS -622213 MS -622214 MS -622215 MS -622216 MS -622217 MS -622218 MS -622219 MS -622220 MS -622221 MS -622222 MS -622223 MS -622224 MS -622225 MS -622171 MD -639492 MD -639491 MD -639490 MD -639489 MD -639488 MD -639487 MD -639486 MD -639485 MD -639484 MD -639483 MD -639482 MD -639481 MD -639480 MD -639479 MD -639478 MD -639477 MD -639476 MD -639475 MD -639474 MD -639473 MD -639472 MD -639471 MD -639470 MD -639469 MD -639468 MD -639467 MD -639466 MD -639465 MD -639464