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 -464→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728
1 Lynx -464 2 Lynx -464 3 Lynx -464 4 Lynx -464 5 Lynx -464 6 Lynx -464 7 Lynx -464 8 Lynx -464 9 Lynx -464 10 Lynx -464 11 Lynx -464 12 Lynx -464 13 Lynx -464 14 Lynx -464 15 Lynx -464 16 Lynx -464 17 Lynx -464 18 Lynx -464 19 Lynx -464 20 Lynx -464 21 Lynx -464 22 Lynx -464 23 Lynx -464 24 Lynx -464 25 Lynx -464 26 Lynx -464 27 Lynx -464 28 Lynx -464 1 Apus -463 30 November 0737 1 December 0737 2 December 0737 3 December 0737 4 December 0737 5 December 0737 6 December 0737 7 December 0737 8 December 0737 9 December 0737 10 December 0737 11 December 0737 12 December 0737 13 December 0737 14 December 0737 15 December 0737 16 December 0737 17 December 0737 18 December 0737 19 December 0737 20 December 0737 21 December 0737 22 December 0737 23 December 0737 24 December 0737 25 December 0737 26 December 0737 27 December 0737 28 December 0737 29 December 0737
MS -457668 MS -457669 MS -457670 MS -457671 MS -457672 MS -457673 MS -457674 MS -457675 MS -457676 MS -457677 MS -457678 MS -457679 MS -457680 MS -457681 MS -457682 MS -457683 MS -457684 MS -457685 MS -457686 MS -457687 MS -457688 MS -457689 MS -457690 MS -457691 MS -457692 MS -457693 MS -457694 MS -457695 MS -457640 MD -470391 MD -470390 MD -470389 MD -470388 MD -470387 MD -470386 MD -470385 MD -470384 MD -470383 MD -470382 MD -470381 MD -470380 MD -470379 MD -470378 MD -470377 MD -470376 MD -470375 MD -470374 MD -470373 MD -470372 MD -470371 MD -470370 MD -470369 MD -470368 MD -470367 MD -470366 MD -470365 MD -470364 MD -470363 MD -470362