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 -415→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728
1 Lynx -415 2 Lynx -415 3 Lynx -415 4 Lynx -415 5 Lynx -415 6 Lynx -415 7 Lynx -415 8 Lynx -415 9 Lynx -415 10 Lynx -415 11 Lynx -415 12 Lynx -415 13 Lynx -415 14 Lynx -415 15 Lynx -415 16 Lynx -415 17 Lynx -415 18 Lynx -415 19 Lynx -415 20 Lynx -415 21 Lynx -415 22 Lynx -415 23 Lynx -415 24 Lynx -415 25 Lynx -415 26 Lynx -415 27 Lynx -415 28 Lynx -415 1 Apus -414 5 February 0830 6 February 0830 7 February 0830 8 February 0830 9 February 0830 10 February 0830 11 February 0830 12 February 0830 13 February 0830 14 February 0830 15 February 0830 16 February 0830 17 February 0830 18 February 0830 19 February 0830 20 February 0830 21 February 0830 22 February 0830 23 February 0830 24 February 0830 25 February 0830 26 February 0830 27 February 0830 28 February 0830 1 March 0830 2 March 0830 3 March 0830 4 March 0830 5 March 0830 6 March 0830
MS -424908 MS -424909 MS -424910 MS -424911 MS -424912 MS -424913 MS -424914 MS -424915 MS -424916 MS -424917 MS -424918 MS -424919 MS -424920 MS -424921 MS -424922 MS -424923 MS -424924 MS -424925 MS -424926 MS -424927 MS -424928 MS -424929 MS -424930 MS -424931 MS -424932 MS -424933 MS -424934 MS -424935 MS -424880 MD -436721 MD -436720 MD -436719 MD -436718 MD -436717 MD -436716 MD -436715 MD -436714 MD -436713 MD -436712 MD -436711 MD -436710 MD -436709 MD -436708 MD -436707 MD -436706 MD -436705 MD -436704 MD -436703 MD -436702 MD -436701 MD -436700 MD -436699 MD -436698 MD -436697 MD -436696 MD -436695 MD -436694 MD -436693 MD -436692