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 -296→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728
1 Lynx -296 2 Lynx -296 3 Lynx -296 4 Lynx -296 5 Lynx -296 6 Lynx -296 7 Lynx -296 8 Lynx -296 9 Lynx -296 10 Lynx -296 11 Lynx -296 12 Lynx -296 13 Lynx -296 14 Lynx -296 15 Lynx -296 16 Lynx -296 17 Lynx -296 18 Lynx -296 19 Lynx -296 20 Lynx -296 21 Lynx -296 22 Lynx -296 23 Lynx -296 24 Lynx -296 25 Lynx -296 26 Lynx -296 27 Lynx -296 28 Lynx -296 1 Apus -295 26 December 1053 27 December 1053 28 December 1053 29 December 1053 30 December 1053 31 December 1053 1 January 1054 2 January 1054 3 January 1054 4 January 1054 5 January 1054 6 January 1054 7 January 1054 8 January 1054 9 January 1054 10 January 1054 11 January 1054 12 January 1054 13 January 1054 14 January 1054 15 January 1054 16 January 1054 17 January 1054 18 January 1054 19 January 1054 20 January 1054 21 January 1054 22 January 1054 23 January 1054 24 January 1054
MS -345345 MS -345346 MS -345347 MS -345348 MS -345349 MS -345350 MS -345351 MS -345352 MS -345353 MS -345354 MS -345355 MS -345356 MS -345357 MS -345358 MS -345359 MS -345360 MS -345361 MS -345362 MS -345363 MS -345364 MS -345365 MS -345366 MS -345367 MS -345368 MS -345369 MS -345370 MS -345371 MS -345372 MS -345317 MD -354948 MD -354947 MD -354946 MD -354945 MD -354944 MD -354943 MD -354942 MD -354941 MD -354940 MD -354939 MD -354938 MD -354937 MD -354936 MD -354935 MD -354934 MD -354933 MD -354932 MD -354931 MD -354930 MD -354929 MD -354928 MD -354927 MD -354926 MD -354925 MD -354924 MD -354923 MD -354922 MD -354921 MD -354920 MD -354919