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 -475→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728
1 Lynx -475 2 Lynx -475 3 Lynx -475 4 Lynx -475 5 Lynx -475 6 Lynx -475 7 Lynx -475 8 Lynx -475 9 Lynx -475 10 Lynx -475 11 Lynx -475 12 Lynx -475 13 Lynx -475 14 Lynx -475 15 Lynx -475 16 Lynx -475 17 Lynx -475 18 Lynx -475 19 Lynx -475 20 Lynx -475 21 Lynx -475 22 Lynx -475 23 Lynx -475 24 Lynx -475 25 Lynx -475 26 Lynx -475 27 Lynx -475 28 Lynx -475 1 Apus -474 21 March 0717 22 March 0717 23 March 0717 24 March 0717 25 March 0717 26 March 0717 27 March 0717 28 March 0717 29 March 0717 30 March 0717 31 March 0717 1 April 0717 2 April 0717 3 April 0717 4 April 0717 5 April 0717 6 April 0717 7 April 0717 8 April 0717 9 April 0717 10 April 0717 11 April 0717 12 April 0717 13 April 0717 14 April 0717 15 April 0717 16 April 0717 17 April 0717 18 April 0717
MS -465023 MS -465024 MS -465025 MS -465026 MS -465027 MS -465028 MS -465029 MS -465030 MS -465031 MS -465032 MS -465033 MS -465034 MS -465035 MS -465036 MS -465037 MS -465038 MS -465039 MS -465040 MS -465041 MS -465042 MS -465043 MS -465044 MS -465045 MS -465046 MS -465047 MS -465048 MS -465049 MS -465050 MS -464995 MD -477950 MD -477949 MD -477948 MD -477947 MD -477946 MD -477945 MD -477944 MD -477943 MD -477942 MD -477941 MD -477940 MD -477939 MD -477938 MD -477937 MD -477936 MD -477935 MD -477934 MD -477933 MD -477932 MD -477931 MD -477930 MD -477929 MD -477928 MD -477927 MD -477926 MD -477925 MD -477924 MD -477923 MD -477922