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 -714→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
252627
1 Monoceros -714 2 Monoceros -714 3 Monoceros -714 4 Monoceros -714 5 Monoceros -714 6 Monoceros -714 7 Monoceros -714 8 Monoceros -714 9 Monoceros -714 10 Monoceros -714 11 Monoceros -714 12 Monoceros -714 13 Monoceros -714 14 Monoceros -714 15 Monoceros -714 16 Monoceros -714 17 Monoceros -714 18 Monoceros -714 19 Monoceros -714 20 Monoceros -714 21 Monoceros -714 22 Monoceros -714 23 Monoceros -714 24 Monoceros -714 25 Monoceros -714 26 Monoceros -714 27 Monoceros -714 1 Aquila -713 28 May 0267 29 May 0267 30 May 0267 31 May 0267 1 June 0267 2 June 0267 3 June 0267 4 June 0267 5 June 0267 6 June 0267 7 June 0267 8 June 0267 9 June 0267 10 June 0267 11 June 0267 12 June 0267 13 June 0267 14 June 0267 15 June 0267 16 June 0267 17 June 0267 18 June 0267 19 June 0267 20 June 0267 21 June 0267 22 June 0267 23 June 0267 24 June 0267 25 June 0267 26 June 0267
MS -624873 MS -624874 MS -624875 MS -624876 MS -624877 MS -624878 MS -624879 MS -624880 MS -624881 MS -624882 MS -624883 MS -624884 MS -624885 MS -624886 MS -624887 MS -624888 MS -624889 MS -624890 MS -624891 MS -624892 MS -624893 MS -624894 MS -624895 MS -624896 MS -624897 MS -624898 MS -624899 MS -624845 MD -642241 MD -642240 MD -642239 MD -642238 MD -642237 MD -642236 MD -642235 MD -642234 MD -642233 MD -642232 MD -642231 MD -642230 MD -642229 MD -642228 MD -642227 MD -642226 MD -642225 MD -642224 MD -642223 MD -642222 MD -642221 MD -642220 MD -642219 MD -642218 MD -642217 MD -642216 MD -642215 MD -642214 MD -642213 MD -642212