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 977→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
1 Monoceros 977 2 Monoceros 977 3 Monoceros 977 4 Monoceros 977 5 Monoceros 977 6 Monoceros 977 7 Monoceros 977 8 Monoceros 977 9 Monoceros 977 10 Monoceros 977 11 Monoceros 977 12 Monoceros 977 13 Monoceros 977 14 Monoceros 977 15 Monoceros 977 16 Monoceros 977 17 Monoceros 977 18 Monoceros 977 19 Monoceros 977 20 Monoceros 977 21 Monoceros 977 22 Monoceros 977 23 Monoceros 977 24 Monoceros 977 25 Monoceros 977 26 Monoceros 977 27 Monoceros 977 1 Volans 977 4 October 3448 5 October 3448 6 October 3448 7 October 3448 8 October 3448 9 October 3448 10 October 3448 11 October 3448 12 October 3448 13 October 3448 14 October 3448 15 October 3448 16 October 3448 17 October 3448 18 October 3448 19 October 3448 20 October 3448 21 October 3448 22 October 3448 23 October 3448 24 October 3448 25 October 3448 26 October 3448 27 October 3448 28 October 3448 29 October 3448 30 October 3448 31 October 3448 1 November 3448
MS 505688 MS 505689 MS 505690 MS 505691 MS 505692 MS 505693 MS 505694 MS 505695 MS 505696 MS 505697 MS 505698 MS 505699 MS 505700 MS 505701 MS 505702 MS 505703 MS 505704 MS 505705 MS 505706 MS 505707 MS 505708 MS 505709 MS 505710 MS 505711 MS 505712 MS 505713 MS 505714 MS 505715 MD 519725 MD 519726 MD 519727 MD 519728 MD 519729 MD 519730 MD 519731 MD 519732 MD 519733 MD 519734 MD 519735 MD 519736 MD 519737 MD 519738 MD 519739 MD 519740 MD 519741 MD 519742 MD 519743 MD 519744 MD 519745 MD 519746 MD 519747 MD 519748 MD 519749 MD 519750 MD 519751 MD 519752 MD 519753