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 1277→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
222324252627
1 Monoceros 1277 2 Monoceros 1277 3 Monoceros 1277 4 Monoceros 1277 5 Monoceros 1277 6 Monoceros 1277 7 Monoceros 1277 8 Monoceros 1277 9 Monoceros 1277 10 Monoceros 1277 11 Monoceros 1277 12 Monoceros 1277 13 Monoceros 1277 14 Monoceros 1277 15 Monoceros 1277 16 Monoceros 1277 17 Monoceros 1277 18 Monoceros 1277 19 Monoceros 1277 20 Monoceros 1277 21 Monoceros 1277 22 Monoceros 1277 23 Monoceros 1277 24 Monoceros 1277 25 Monoceros 1277 26 Monoceros 1277 27 Monoceros 1277 1 Volans 1277 4 March 4013 5 March 4013 6 March 4013 7 March 4013 8 March 4013 9 March 4013 10 March 4013 11 March 4013 12 March 4013 13 March 4013 14 March 4013 15 March 4013 16 March 4013 17 March 4013 18 March 4013 19 March 4013 20 March 4013 21 March 4013 22 March 4013 23 March 4013 24 March 4013 25 March 4013 26 March 4013 27 March 4013 28 March 4013 29 March 4013 30 March 4013 31 March 4013 1 April 4013
MS 706265 MS 706266 MS 706267 MS 706268 MS 706269 MS 706270 MS 706271 MS 706272 MS 706273 MS 706274 MS 706275 MS 706276 MS 706277 MS 706278 MS 706279 MS 706280 MS 706281 MS 706282 MS 706283 MS 706284 MS 706285 MS 706286 MS 706287 MS 706288 MS 706289 MS 706290 MS 706291 MS 706292 MD 725873 MD 725874 MD 725875 MD 725876 MD 725877 MD 725878 MD 725879 MD 725880 MD 725881 MD 725882 MD 725883 MD 725884 MD 725885 MD 725886 MD 725887 MD 725888 MD 725889 MD 725890 MD 725891 MD 725892 MD 725893 MD 725894 MD 725895 MD 725896 MD 725897 MD 725898 MD 725899 MD 725900 MD 725901