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 -911→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
252627
1 Monoceros -911 2 Monoceros -911 3 Monoceros -911 4 Monoceros -911 5 Monoceros -911 6 Monoceros -911 7 Monoceros -911 8 Monoceros -911 9 Monoceros -911 10 Monoceros -911 11 Monoceros -911 12 Monoceros -911 13 Monoceros -911 14 Monoceros -911 15 Monoceros -911 16 Monoceros -911 17 Monoceros -911 18 Monoceros -911 19 Monoceros -911 20 Monoceros -911 21 Monoceros -911 22 Monoceros -911 23 Monoceros -911 24 Monoceros -911 25 Monoceros -911 26 Monoceros -911 27 Monoceros -911 2 Aquila -910 8 October -0104 9 October -0104 10 October -0104 11 October -0104 12 October -0104 13 October -0104 14 October -0104 15 October -0104 16 October -0104 17 October -0104 18 October -0104 19 October -0104 20 October -0104 21 October -0104 22 October -0104 23 October -0104 24 October -0104 25 October -0104 26 October -0104 27 October -0104 28 October -0104 29 October -0104 30 October -0104 31 October -0104 1 November -0104 2 November -0104 3 November -0104 4 November -0104 5 November -0104 6 November -0104
MS -756586 MS -756587 MS -756588 MS -756589 MS -756590 MS -756591 MS -756592 MS -756593 MS -756594 MS -756595 MS -756596 MS -756597 MS -756598 MS -756599 MS -756600 MS -756601 MS -756602 MS -756603 MS -756604 MS -756605 MS -756606 MS -756607 MS -756608 MS -756609 MS -756610 MS -756611 MS -756612 MS -756558 MD -777612 MD -777611 MD -777610 MD -777609 MD -777608 MD -777607 MD -777606 MD -777605 MD -777604 MD -777603 MD -777602 MD -777601 MD -777600 MD -777599 MD -777598 MD -777597 MD -777596 MD -777595 MD -777594 MD -777593 MD -777592 MD -777591 MD -777590 MD -777589 MD -777588 MD -777587 MD -777586 MD -777585 MD -777584 MD -777583