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 404→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
27
1 Monoceros 404 2 Monoceros 404 3 Monoceros 404 4 Monoceros 404 5 Monoceros 404 6 Monoceros 404 7 Monoceros 404 8 Monoceros 404 9 Monoceros 404 10 Monoceros 404 11 Monoceros 404 12 Monoceros 404 13 Monoceros 404 14 Monoceros 404 15 Monoceros 404 16 Monoceros 404 17 Monoceros 404 18 Monoceros 404 19 Monoceros 404 20 Monoceros 404 21 Monoceros 404 22 Monoceros 404 23 Monoceros 404 24 Monoceros 404 25 Monoceros 404 26 Monoceros 404 27 Monoceros 404 1 Volans 404 22 September 2370 23 September 2370 24 September 2370 25 September 2370 26 September 2370 27 September 2370 28 September 2370 29 September 2370 30 September 2370 1 October 2370 2 October 2370 3 October 2370 4 October 2370 5 October 2370 6 October 2370 7 October 2370 8 October 2370 9 October 2370 10 October 2370 11 October 2370 12 October 2370 13 October 2370 14 October 2370 15 October 2370 16 October 2370 17 October 2370 18 October 2370 19 October 2370 20 October 2370
MS 122586 MS 122587 MS 122588 MS 122589 MS 122590 MS 122591 MS 122592 MS 122593 MS 122594 MS 122595 MS 122596 MS 122597 MS 122598 MS 122599 MS 122600 MS 122601 MS 122602 MS 122603 MS 122604 MS 122605 MS 122606 MS 122607 MS 122608 MS 122609 MS 122610 MS 122611 MS 122612 MS 122613 MD 125981 MD 125982 MD 125983 MD 125984 MD 125985 MD 125986 MD 125987 MD 125988 MD 125989 MD 125990 MD 125991 MD 125992 MD 125993 MD 125994 MD 125995 MD 125996 MD 125997 MD 125998 MD 125999 MD 126000 MD 126001 MD 126002 MD 126003 MD 126004 MD 126005 MD 126006 MD 126007 MD 126008 MD 126009