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 -814→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
252627
1 Monoceros -814 2 Monoceros -814 3 Monoceros -814 4 Monoceros -814 5 Monoceros -814 6 Monoceros -814 7 Monoceros -814 8 Monoceros -814 9 Monoceros -814 10 Monoceros -814 11 Monoceros -814 12 Monoceros -814 13 Monoceros -814 14 Monoceros -814 15 Monoceros -814 16 Monoceros -814 17 Monoceros -814 18 Monoceros -814 19 Monoceros -814 20 Monoceros -814 21 Monoceros -814 22 Monoceros -814 23 Monoceros -814 24 Monoceros -814 25 Monoceros -814 26 Monoceros -814 27 Monoceros -814 1 Aquila -813 7 April 0079 8 April 0079 9 April 0079 10 April 0079 11 April 0079 12 April 0079 13 April 0079 14 April 0079 15 April 0079 16 April 0079 17 April 0079 18 April 0079 19 April 0079 20 April 0079 21 April 0079 22 April 0079 23 April 0079 24 April 0079 25 April 0079 26 April 0079 27 April 0079 28 April 0079 29 April 0079 30 April 0079 1 May 0079 2 May 0079 3 May 0079 4 May 0079 5 May 0079 6 May 0079
MS -691732 MS -691733 MS -691734 MS -691735 MS -691736 MS -691737 MS -691738 MS -691739 MS -691740 MS -691741 MS -691742 MS -691743 MS -691744 MS -691745 MS -691746 MS -691747 MS -691748 MS -691749 MS -691750 MS -691751 MS -691752 MS -691753 MS -691754 MS -691755 MS -691756 MS -691757 MS -691758 MS -691704 MD -710957 MD -710956 MD -710955 MD -710954 MD -710953 MD -710952 MD -710951 MD -710950 MD -710949 MD -710948 MD -710947 MD -710946 MD -710945 MD -710944 MD -710943 MD -710942 MD -710941 MD -710940 MD -710939 MD -710938 MD -710937 MD -710936 MD -710935 MD -710934 MD -710933 MD -710932 MD -710931 MD -710930 MD -710929 MD -710928