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 -756→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
252627
1 Monoceros -756 2 Monoceros -756 3 Monoceros -756 4 Monoceros -756 5 Monoceros -756 6 Monoceros -756 7 Monoceros -756 8 Monoceros -756 9 Monoceros -756 10 Monoceros -756 11 Monoceros -756 12 Monoceros -756 13 Monoceros -756 14 Monoceros -756 15 Monoceros -756 16 Monoceros -756 17 Monoceros -756 18 Monoceros -756 19 Monoceros -756 20 Monoceros -756 21 Monoceros -756 22 Monoceros -756 23 Monoceros -756 24 Monoceros -756 25 Monoceros -756 26 Monoceros -756 27 Monoceros -756 1 Aquila -755 21 May 0188 22 May 0188 23 May 0188 24 May 0188 25 May 0188 26 May 0188 27 May 0188 28 May 0188 29 May 0188 30 May 0188 31 May 0188 1 June 0188 2 June 0188 3 June 0188 4 June 0188 5 June 0188 6 June 0188 7 June 0188 8 June 0188 9 June 0188 10 June 0188 11 June 0188 12 June 0188 13 June 0188 14 June 0188 15 June 0188 16 June 0188 17 June 0188 18 June 0188 19 June 0188
MS -652953 MS -652954 MS -652955 MS -652956 MS -652957 MS -652958 MS -652959 MS -652960 MS -652961 MS -652962 MS -652963 MS -652964 MS -652965 MS -652966 MS -652967 MS -652968 MS -652969 MS -652970 MS -652971 MS -652972 MS -652973 MS -652974 MS -652975 MS -652976 MS -652977 MS -652978 MS -652979 MS -652925 MD -671101 MD -671100 MD -671099 MD -671098 MD -671097 MD -671096 MD -671095 MD -671094 MD -671093 MD -671092 MD -671091 MD -671090 MD -671089 MD -671088 MD -671087 MD -671086 MD -671085 MD -671084 MD -671083 MD -671082 MD -671081 MD -671080 MD -671079 MD -671078 MD -671077 MD -671076 MD -671075 MD -671074 MD -671073 MD -671072