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 471→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728
1 Lynx 471 2 Lynx 471 3 Lynx 471 4 Lynx 471 5 Lynx 471 6 Lynx 471 7 Lynx 471 8 Lynx 471 9 Lynx 471 10 Lynx 471 11 Lynx 471 12 Lynx 471 13 Lynx 471 14 Lynx 471 15 Lynx 471 16 Lynx 471 17 Lynx 471 18 Lynx 471 19 Lynx 471 20 Lynx 471 21 Lynx 471 22 Lynx 471 23 Lynx 471 24 Lynx 471 25 Lynx 471 26 Lynx 471 27 Lynx 471 28 Lynx 471 1 Camelopardalis 471 6 December 2496 7 December 2496 8 December 2496 9 December 2496 10 December 2496 11 December 2496 12 December 2496 13 December 2496 14 December 2496 15 December 2496 16 December 2496 17 December 2496 18 December 2496 19 December 2496 20 December 2496 21 December 2496 22 December 2496 23 December 2496 24 December 2496 25 December 2496 26 December 2496 27 December 2496 28 December 2496 29 December 2496 30 December 2496 31 December 2496 1 January 2497 2 January 2497 3 January 2497 4 January 2497
MS 167437 MS 167438 MS 167439 MS 167440 MS 167441 MS 167442 MS 167443 MS 167444 MS 167445 MS 167446 MS 167447 MS 167448 MS 167449 MS 167450 MS 167451 MS 167452 MS 167453 MS 167454 MS 167455 MS 167456 MS 167457 MS 167458 MS 167459 MS 167460 MS 167461 MS 167462 MS 167463 MS 167464 MS 167465 MD 172078 MD 172079 MD 172080 MD 172081 MD 172082 MD 172083 MD 172084 MD 172085 MD 172086 MD 172087 MD 172088 MD 172089 MD 172090 MD 172091 MD 172092 MD 172093 MD 172094 MD 172095 MD 172096 MD 172097 MD 172098 MD 172099 MD 172100 MD 172101 MD 172102 MD 172103 MD 172104 MD 172105 MD 172106 MD 172107