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 695→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
252627
1 Monoceros 695 2 Monoceros 695 3 Monoceros 695 4 Monoceros 695 5 Monoceros 695 6 Monoceros 695 7 Monoceros 695 8 Monoceros 695 9 Monoceros 695 10 Monoceros 695 11 Monoceros 695 12 Monoceros 695 13 Monoceros 695 14 Monoceros 695 15 Monoceros 695 16 Monoceros 695 17 Monoceros 695 18 Monoceros 695 19 Monoceros 695 20 Monoceros 695 21 Monoceros 695 22 Monoceros 695 23 Monoceros 695 24 Monoceros 695 25 Monoceros 695 26 Monoceros 695 27 Monoceros 695 1 Volans 695 18 March 2918 19 March 2918 20 March 2918 21 March 2918 22 March 2918 23 March 2918 24 March 2918 25 March 2918 26 March 2918 27 March 2918 28 March 2918 29 March 2918 30 March 2918 31 March 2918 1 April 2918 2 April 2918 3 April 2918 4 April 2918 5 April 2918 6 April 2918 7 April 2918 8 April 2918 9 April 2918 10 April 2918 11 April 2918 12 April 2918 13 April 2918 14 April 2918
MS 317146 MS 317147 MS 317148 MS 317149 MS 317150 MS 317151 MS 317152 MS 317153 MS 317154 MS 317155 MS 317156 MS 317157 MS 317158 MS 317159 MS 317160 MS 317161 MS 317162 MS 317163 MS 317164 MS 317165 MS 317166 MS 317167 MS 317168 MS 317169 MS 317170 MS 317171 MS 317172 MS 317173 MD 325946 MD 325947 MD 325948 MD 325949 MD 325950 MD 325951 MD 325952 MD 325953 MD 325954 MD 325955 MD 325956 MD 325957 MD 325958 MD 325959 MD 325960 MD 325961 MD 325962 MD 325963 MD 325964 MD 325965 MD 325966 MD 325967 MD 325968 MD 325969 MD 325970 MD 325971 MD 325972 MD 325973