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 754→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
2324252627
1 Monoceros 754 2 Monoceros 754 3 Monoceros 754 4 Monoceros 754 5 Monoceros 754 6 Monoceros 754 7 Monoceros 754 8 Monoceros 754 9 Monoceros 754 10 Monoceros 754 11 Monoceros 754 12 Monoceros 754 13 Monoceros 754 14 Monoceros 754 15 Monoceros 754 16 Monoceros 754 17 Monoceros 754 18 Monoceros 754 19 Monoceros 754 20 Monoceros 754 21 Monoceros 754 22 Monoceros 754 23 Monoceros 754 24 Monoceros 754 25 Monoceros 754 26 Monoceros 754 27 Monoceros 754 1 Volans 754 18 March 3029 19 March 3029 20 March 3029 21 March 3029 22 March 3029 23 March 3029 24 March 3029 25 March 3029 26 March 3029 27 March 3029 28 March 3029 29 March 3029 30 March 3029 31 March 3029 1 April 3029 2 April 3029 3 April 3029 4 April 3029 5 April 3029 6 April 3029 7 April 3029 8 April 3029 9 April 3029 10 April 3029 11 April 3029 12 April 3029 13 April 3029 14 April 3029 15 April 3029
MS 356593 MS 356594 MS 356595 MS 356596 MS 356597 MS 356598 MS 356599 MS 356600 MS 356601 MS 356602 MS 356603 MS 356604 MS 356605 MS 356606 MS 356607 MS 356608 MS 356609 MS 356610 MS 356611 MS 356612 MS 356613 MS 356614 MS 356615 MS 356616 MS 356617 MS 356618 MS 356619 MS 356620 MD 366488 MD 366489 MD 366490 MD 366491 MD 366492 MD 366493 MD 366494 MD 366495 MD 366496 MD 366497 MD 366498 MD 366499 MD 366500 MD 366501 MD 366502 MD 366503 MD 366504 MD 366505 MD 366506 MD 366507 MD 366508 MD 366509 MD 366510 MD 366511 MD 366512 MD 366513 MD 366514 MD 366515 MD 366516