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 873→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
2324252627
1 Monoceros 873 2 Monoceros 873 3 Monoceros 873 4 Monoceros 873 5 Monoceros 873 6 Monoceros 873 7 Monoceros 873 8 Monoceros 873 9 Monoceros 873 10 Monoceros 873 11 Monoceros 873 12 Monoceros 873 13 Monoceros 873 14 Monoceros 873 15 Monoceros 873 16 Monoceros 873 17 Monoceros 873 18 Monoceros 873 19 Monoceros 873 20 Monoceros 873 21 Monoceros 873 22 Monoceros 873 23 Monoceros 873 24 Monoceros 873 25 Monoceros 873 26 Monoceros 873 27 Monoceros 873 1 Volans 873 3 February 3253 4 February 3253 5 February 3253 6 February 3253 7 February 3253 8 February 3253 9 February 3253 10 February 3253 11 February 3253 12 February 3253 13 February 3253 14 February 3253 15 February 3253 16 February 3253 17 February 3253 18 February 3253 19 February 3253 20 February 3253 21 February 3253 22 February 3253 23 February 3253 24 February 3253 25 February 3253 26 February 3253 27 February 3253 28 February 3253 1 March 3253 2 March 3253 3 March 3253
MS 436155 MS 436156 MS 436157 MS 436158 MS 436159 MS 436160 MS 436161 MS 436162 MS 436163 MS 436164 MS 436165 MS 436166 MS 436167 MS 436168 MS 436169 MS 436170 MS 436171 MS 436172 MS 436173 MS 436174 MS 436175 MS 436176 MS 436177 MS 436178 MS 436179 MS 436180 MS 436181 MS 436182 MD 448260 MD 448261 MD 448262 MD 448263 MD 448264 MD 448265 MD 448266 MD 448267 MD 448268 MD 448269 MD 448270 MD 448271 MD 448272 MD 448273 MD 448274 MD 448275 MD 448276 MD 448277 MD 448278 MD 448279 MD 448280 MD 448281 MD 448282 MD 448283 MD 448284 MD 448285 MD 448286 MD 448287 MD 448288