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 -741→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
252627
1 Monoceros -741 2 Monoceros -741 3 Monoceros -741 4 Monoceros -741 5 Monoceros -741 6 Monoceros -741 7 Monoceros -741 8 Monoceros -741 9 Monoceros -741 10 Monoceros -741 11 Monoceros -741 12 Monoceros -741 13 Monoceros -741 14 Monoceros -741 15 Monoceros -741 16 Monoceros -741 17 Monoceros -741 18 Monoceros -741 19 Monoceros -741 20 Monoceros -741 21 Monoceros -741 22 Monoceros -741 23 Monoceros -741 24 Monoceros -741 25 Monoceros -741 26 Monoceros -741 27 Monoceros -741 2 Aquila -740 9 August 0216 10 August 0216 11 August 0216 12 August 0216 13 August 0216 14 August 0216 15 August 0216 16 August 0216 17 August 0216 18 August 0216 19 August 0216 20 August 0216 21 August 0216 22 August 0216 23 August 0216 24 August 0216 25 August 0216 26 August 0216 27 August 0216 28 August 0216 29 August 0216 30 August 0216 31 August 0216 1 September 0216 2 September 0216 3 September 0216 4 September 0216 5 September 0216 6 September 0216 7 September 0216
MS -642926 MS -642927 MS -642928 MS -642929 MS -642930 MS -642931 MS -642932 MS -642933 MS -642934 MS -642935 MS -642936 MS -642937 MS -642938 MS -642939 MS -642940 MS -642941 MS -642942 MS -642943 MS -642944 MS -642945 MS -642946 MS -642947 MS -642948 MS -642949 MS -642950 MS -642951 MS -642952 MS -642898 MD -660795 MD -660794 MD -660793 MD -660792 MD -660791 MD -660790 MD -660789 MD -660788 MD -660787 MD -660786 MD -660785 MD -660784 MD -660783 MD -660782 MD -660781 MD -660780 MD -660779 MD -660778 MD -660777 MD -660776 MD -660775 MD -660774 MD -660773 MD -660772 MD -660771 MD -660770 MD -660769 MD -660768 MD -660767 MD -660766