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 -785→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728
1 Lynx -785 2 Lynx -785 3 Lynx -785 4 Lynx -785 5 Lynx -785 6 Lynx -785 7 Lynx -785 8 Lynx -785 9 Lynx -785 10 Lynx -785 11 Lynx -785 12 Lynx -785 13 Lynx -785 14 Lynx -785 15 Lynx -785 16 Lynx -785 17 Lynx -785 18 Lynx -785 19 Lynx -785 20 Lynx -785 21 Lynx -785 22 Lynx -785 23 Lynx -785 24 Lynx -785 25 Lynx -785 26 Lynx -785 27 Lynx -785 28 Lynx -785 1 Apus -784 25 December 0133 26 December 0133 27 December 0133 28 December 0133 29 December 0133 30 December 0133 31 December 0133 1 January 0134 2 January 0134 3 January 0134 4 January 0134 5 January 0134 6 January 0134 7 January 0134 8 January 0134 9 January 0134 10 January 0134 11 January 0134 12 January 0134 13 January 0134 14 January 0134 15 January 0134 16 January 0134 17 January 0134 18 January 0134 19 January 0134 20 January 0134 21 January 0134 22 January 0134 23 January 0134
MS -672287 MS -672288 MS -672289 MS -672290 MS -672291 MS -672292 MS -672293 MS -672294 MS -672295 MS -672296 MS -672297 MS -672298 MS -672299 MS -672300 MS -672301 MS -672302 MS -672303 MS -672304 MS -672305 MS -672306 MS -672307 MS -672308 MS -672309 MS -672310 MS -672311 MS -672312 MS -672313 MS -672314 MS -672259 MD -690972 MD -690971 MD -690970 MD -690969 MD -690968 MD -690967 MD -690966 MD -690965 MD -690964 MD -690963 MD -690962 MD -690961 MD -690960 MD -690959 MD -690958 MD -690957 MD -690956 MD -690955 MD -690954 MD -690953 MD -690952 MD -690951 MD -690950 MD -690949 MD -690948 MD -690947 MD -690946 MD -690945 MD -690944 MD -690943