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 -80→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
252627
1 Monoceros -80 2 Monoceros -80 3 Monoceros -80 4 Monoceros -80 5 Monoceros -80 6 Monoceros -80 7 Monoceros -80 8 Monoceros -80 9 Monoceros -80 10 Monoceros -80 11 Monoceros -80 12 Monoceros -80 13 Monoceros -80 14 Monoceros -80 15 Monoceros -80 16 Monoceros -80 17 Monoceros -80 18 Monoceros -80 19 Monoceros -80 20 Monoceros -80 21 Monoceros -80 22 Monoceros -80 23 Monoceros -80 24 Monoceros -80 25 Monoceros -80 26 Monoceros -80 27 Monoceros -80 2 Aquila -79 17 March 1460 18 March 1460 19 March 1460 20 March 1460 21 March 1460 22 March 1460 23 March 1460 24 March 1460 25 March 1460 26 March 1460 27 March 1460 28 March 1460 29 March 1460 30 March 1460 31 March 1460 1 April 1460 2 April 1460 3 April 1460 4 April 1460 5 April 1460 6 April 1460 7 April 1460 8 April 1460 9 April 1460 10 April 1460 11 April 1460 12 April 1460 13 April 1460 14 April 1460 15 April 1460
MS -200985 MS -200986 MS -200987 MS -200988 MS -200989 MS -200990 MS -200991 MS -200992 MS -200993 MS -200994 MS -200995 MS -200996 MS -200997 MS -200998 MS -200999 MS -201000 MS -201001 MS -201002 MS -201003 MS -201004 MS -201005 MS -201006 MS -201007 MS -201008 MS -201009 MS -201010 MS -201011 MS -200957 MD -206578 MD -206577 MD -206576 MD -206575 MD -206574 MD -206573 MD -206572 MD -206571 MD -206570 MD -206569 MD -206568 MD -206567 MD -206566 MD -206565 MD -206564 MD -206563 MD -206562 MD -206561 MD -206560 MD -206559 MD -206558 MD -206557 MD -206556 MD -206555 MD -206554 MD -206553 MD -206552 MD -206551 MD -206550 MD -206549