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 -736→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
252627
1 Monoceros -736 2 Monoceros -736 3 Monoceros -736 4 Monoceros -736 5 Monoceros -736 6 Monoceros -736 7 Monoceros -736 8 Monoceros -736 9 Monoceros -736 10 Monoceros -736 11 Monoceros -736 12 Monoceros -736 13 Monoceros -736 14 Monoceros -736 15 Monoceros -736 16 Monoceros -736 17 Monoceros -736 18 Monoceros -736 19 Monoceros -736 20 Monoceros -736 21 Monoceros -736 22 Monoceros -736 23 Monoceros -736 24 Monoceros -736 25 Monoceros -736 26 Monoceros -736 27 Monoceros -736 1 Aquila -735 6 January 0226 7 January 0226 8 January 0226 9 January 0226 10 January 0226 11 January 0226 12 January 0226 13 January 0226 14 January 0226 15 January 0226 16 January 0226 17 January 0226 18 January 0226 19 January 0226 20 January 0226 21 January 0226 22 January 0226 23 January 0226 24 January 0226 25 January 0226 26 January 0226 27 January 0226 28 January 0226 29 January 0226 30 January 0226 31 January 0226 1 February 0226 2 February 0226 3 February 0226 4 February 0226
MS -639582 MS -639583 MS -639584 MS -639585 MS -639586 MS -639587 MS -639588 MS -639589 MS -639590 MS -639591 MS -639592 MS -639593 MS -639594 MS -639595 MS -639596 MS -639597 MS -639598 MS -639599 MS -639600 MS -639601 MS -639602 MS -639603 MS -639604 MS -639605 MS -639606 MS -639607 MS -639608 MS -639554 MD -657358 MD -657357 MD -657356 MD -657355 MD -657354 MD -657353 MD -657352 MD -657351 MD -657350 MD -657349 MD -657348 MD -657347 MD -657346 MD -657345 MD -657344 MD -657343 MD -657342 MD -657341 MD -657340 MD -657339 MD -657338 MD -657337 MD -657336 MD -657335 MD -657334 MD -657333 MD -657332 MD -657331 MD -657330 MD -657329