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 462→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
1 Monoceros 462 2 Monoceros 462 3 Monoceros 462 4 Monoceros 462 5 Monoceros 462 6 Monoceros 462 7 Monoceros 462 8 Monoceros 462 9 Monoceros 462 10 Monoceros 462 11 Monoceros 462 12 Monoceros 462 13 Monoceros 462 14 Monoceros 462 15 Monoceros 462 16 Monoceros 462 17 Monoceros 462 18 Monoceros 462 19 Monoceros 462 20 Monoceros 462 21 Monoceros 462 22 Monoceros 462 23 Monoceros 462 24 Monoceros 462 25 Monoceros 462 26 Monoceros 462 27 Monoceros 462 1 Volans 462 5 November 2479 6 November 2479 7 November 2479 8 November 2479 9 November 2479 10 November 2479 11 November 2479 12 November 2479 13 November 2479 14 November 2479 15 November 2479 16 November 2479 17 November 2479 18 November 2479 19 November 2479 20 November 2479 21 November 2479 22 November 2479 23 November 2479 24 November 2479 25 November 2479 26 November 2479 27 November 2479 28 November 2479 29 November 2479 30 November 2479 1 December 2479 2 December 2479 3 December 2479
MS 161365 MS 161366 MS 161367 MS 161368 MS 161369 MS 161370 MS 161371 MS 161372 MS 161373 MS 161374 MS 161375 MS 161376 MS 161377 MS 161378 MS 161379 MS 161380 MS 161381 MS 161382 MS 161383 MS 161384 MS 161385 MS 161386 MS 161387 MS 161388 MS 161389 MS 161390 MS 161391 MS 161392 MD 165837 MD 165838 MD 165839 MD 165840 MD 165841 MD 165842 MD 165843 MD 165844 MD 165845 MD 165846 MD 165847 MD 165848 MD 165849 MD 165850 MD 165851 MD 165852 MD 165853 MD 165854 MD 165855 MD 165856 MD 165857 MD 165858 MD 165859 MD 165860 MD 165861 MD 165862 MD 165863 MD 165864 MD 165865