IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine (Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg)
Lynx
The Lynx
OriginHevelius
AbbreviationLyn
GenitiveLyncis
Pronunciation/ˈlɪŋks/ genitive /ˈlɪnsɪs/
LINKS
LocationNorthern Hemisphere
Primary Starα Lyncis
Right Ascention 9h 21m Declination +34° 23'
Martian Solar Lag δ(🜨→♂) +0.269 h (16.1 min)
Lynx is another modern constellation created by Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius in the late seventeenth century to fill in the unformed areas on his chart. It represents a Lynx, a wild cat found in North America. Being a newer constellation, Lynx has no Greek mythology associated to it.
www.underthesky.com
Lynx from Celestial Atlas by Alexander Jamieson (1822). Source image courtesy the US Naval Observatory. Via www.underthenightsky.com.
←Lynx -246→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728
1 Lynx -246 2 Lynx -246 3 Lynx -246 4 Lynx -246 5 Lynx -246 6 Lynx -246 7 Lynx -246 8 Lynx -246 9 Lynx -246 10 Lynx -246 11 Lynx -246 12 Lynx -246 13 Lynx -246 14 Lynx -246 15 Lynx -246 16 Lynx -246 17 Lynx -246 18 Lynx -246 19 Lynx -246 20 Lynx -246 21 Lynx -246 22 Lynx -246 23 Lynx -246 24 Lynx -246 25 Lynx -246 26 Lynx -246 27 Lynx -246 28 Lynx -246 1 Apus -245 22 January 1148 23 January 1148 24 January 1148 25 January 1148 26 January 1148 27 January 1148 28 January 1148 29 January 1148 30 January 1148 31 January 1148 1 February 1148 2 February 1148 3 February 1148 4 February 1148 5 February 1148 6 February 1148 7 February 1148 8 February 1148 9 February 1148 10 February 1148 11 February 1148 12 February 1148 13 February 1148 14 February 1148 15 February 1148 16 February 1148 17 February 1148 18 February 1148 19 February 1148
MS -311915 MS -311916 MS -311917 MS -311918 MS -311919 MS -311920 MS -311921 MS -311922 MS -311923 MS -311924 MS -311925 MS -311926 MS -311927 MS -311928 MS -311929 MS -311930 MS -311931 MS -311932 MS -311933 MS -311934 MS -311935 MS -311936 MS -311937 MS -311938 MS -311939 MS -311940 MS -311941 MS -311942 MS -311887 MD -320589 MD -320588 MD -320587 MD -320586 MD -320585 MD -320584 MD -320583 MD -320582 MD -320581 MD -320580 MD -320579 MD -320578 MD -320577 MD -320576 MD -320575 MD -320574 MD -320573 MD -320572 MD -320571 MD -320570 MD -320569 MD -320568 MD -320567 MD -320566 MD -320565 MD -320564 MD -320563 MD -320562 MD -320561