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 -763→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
252627
1 Monoceros -763 2 Monoceros -763 3 Monoceros -763 4 Monoceros -763 5 Monoceros -763 6 Monoceros -763 7 Monoceros -763 8 Monoceros -763 9 Monoceros -763 10 Monoceros -763 11 Monoceros -763 12 Monoceros -763 13 Monoceros -763 14 Monoceros -763 15 Monoceros -763 16 Monoceros -763 17 Monoceros -763 18 Monoceros -763 19 Monoceros -763 20 Monoceros -763 21 Monoceros -763 22 Monoceros -763 23 Monoceros -763 24 Monoceros -763 25 Monoceros -763 26 Monoceros -763 27 Monoceros -763 1 Aquila -762 20 March 0175 21 March 0175 22 March 0175 23 March 0175 24 March 0175 25 March 0175 26 March 0175 27 March 0175 28 March 0175 29 March 0175 30 March 0175 31 March 0175 1 April 0175 2 April 0175 3 April 0175 4 April 0175 5 April 0175 6 April 0175 7 April 0175 8 April 0175 9 April 0175 10 April 0175 11 April 0175 12 April 0175 13 April 0175 14 April 0175 15 April 0175 16 April 0175 17 April 0175 18 April 0175
MS -657634 MS -657635 MS -657636 MS -657637 MS -657638 MS -657639 MS -657640 MS -657641 MS -657642 MS -657643 MS -657644 MS -657645 MS -657646 MS -657647 MS -657648 MS -657649 MS -657650 MS -657651 MS -657652 MS -657653 MS -657654 MS -657655 MS -657656 MS -657657 MS -657658 MS -657659 MS -657660 MS -657606 MD -675912 MD -675911 MD -675910 MD -675909 MD -675908 MD -675907 MD -675906 MD -675905 MD -675904 MD -675903 MD -675902 MD -675901 MD -675900 MD -675899 MD -675898 MD -675897 MD -675896 MD -675895 MD -675894 MD -675893 MD -675892 MD -675891 MD -675890 MD -675889 MD -675888 MD -675887 MD -675886 MD -675885 MD -675884 MD -675883