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 -846→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728
1 Lynx -846 2 Lynx -846 3 Lynx -846 4 Lynx -846 5 Lynx -846 6 Lynx -846 7 Lynx -846 8 Lynx -846 9 Lynx -846 10 Lynx -846 11 Lynx -846 12 Lynx -846 13 Lynx -846 14 Lynx -846 15 Lynx -846 16 Lynx -846 17 Lynx -846 18 Lynx -846 19 Lynx -846 20 Lynx -846 21 Lynx -846 22 Lynx -846 23 Lynx -846 24 Lynx -846 25 Lynx -846 26 Lynx -846 27 Lynx -846 28 Lynx -846 1 Apus -845 21 March 0019 22 March 0019 23 March 0019 24 March 0019 25 March 0019 26 March 0019 27 March 0019 28 March 0019 29 March 0019 30 March 0019 31 March 0019 1 April 0019 2 April 0019 3 April 0019 4 April 0019 5 April 0019 6 April 0019 7 April 0019 8 April 0019 9 April 0019 10 April 0019 11 April 0019 12 April 0019 13 April 0019 14 April 0019 15 April 0019 16 April 0019 17 April 0019 18 April 0019 19 April 0019
MS -713071 MS -713072 MS -713073 MS -713074 MS -713075 MS -713076 MS -713077 MS -713078 MS -713079 MS -713080 MS -713081 MS -713082 MS -713083 MS -713084 MS -713085 MS -713086 MS -713087 MS -713088 MS -713089 MS -713090 MS -713091 MS -713092 MS -713093 MS -713094 MS -713095 MS -713096 MS -713097 MS -713098 MS -713043 MD -732889 MD -732888 MD -732887 MD -732886 MD -732885 MD -732884 MD -732883 MD -732882 MD -732881 MD -732880 MD -732879 MD -732878 MD -732877 MD -732876 MD -732875 MD -732874 MD -732873 MD -732872 MD -732871 MD -732870 MD -732869 MD -732868 MD -732867 MD -732866 MD -732865 MD -732864 MD -732863 MD -732862 MD -732861 MD -732860