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Cetus
Constellation
	List of stars in Cetus
Abbreviation	Cet
Genitive	Ceti
Pronunciation	/ˈsiːtəs/, genitive /ˈsiːtaɪ/
Symbolism	the Whale, Shark, or Sea Monster
Right ascension	00h 26m 22.2486s–03h 23m 47.1487s
Declination	10.5143948°–−24.8725095°
Area	1231 sq. deg. (4th)
Main stars	14
Bayer/Flamsteed; stars	88
Stars with planets	23
Stars brighter than 3.00m	2
Stars within 10.00 pc (32.62 ly)	9
Brightest star	Diphda (β Cet) (2.02m)
Messier objects	1
Meteor showers	October Cetids; Eta Cetids; Omicron Cetids
Bordering; constellations	Aries; Pisces; Aquarius; Sculptor; Fornax; Eridanus; Taurus
	Visible at latitudes between +70° and −90°.; Best visible at 21:00 (9 p.m.) during the month of November.; Note: †Mira (ο Cet) is magnitude 2.0 at its brightest.

Cetus (/ˈsiːtəs/) is a constellation, sometimes called 'the whale' in English. The Cetus was a sea monster in Greek mythology which both Perseus and Heracles needed to slay. Cetus is in the region of the sky that contains other water-related constellations: Aquarius, Pisces and Eridanus.

Features

Cetus annotated with lines (a "stick figure") from a latitude further north (north of its declination), above a horizon, in conditions ideal for observation.

Ecliptic

Cetus is not among the 12 true zodiac constellations in the J2000 epoch, nor classical 12-part zodiac. The ecliptic passes less than 0.25° from one of its corners. Thus the moon and planets will enter Cetus (occulting any stars as a foreground object) in 50% of their successive orbits briefly and the southern part of the sun appears in Cetus for about one day each year. Many asteroids in belts have longer phases occulting the north-western part of Cetus, those with a slightly greater inclination to the ecliptic than the moon and planets.

As seen from Mars, the ecliptic (apparent plane of the sun and also the average plane of the planets which is almost the same) passes into it.

Stars

Mira ("wonderful", named by Bayer: Omicron Ceti, a star of the neck of the asterism) was the first variable star to be discovered and the prototype of its class, Mira variables. Over a period of 332 days, it reaches a maximum apparent magnitude of 3 - visible to the naked eye - and dips to a minimum magnitude of 10, invisible to the unaided eye. Its seeming appearance and disappearance gave it its name. Mira pulsates with a minimum size of 400 solar diameters and a maximum size of 500 solar diameters. 420 light-years from Earth, it was discovered by David Fabricius in 1596.^[2]

α Ceti, traditionally called Menkar ("the nose"), is a red-hued giant star of magnitude 2.5, 220 light-years from Earth. It is a wide double star; the secondary is 93 Ceti, a blue-white hued star of magnitude 5.6, 440 light-years away. β Ceti, also called Deneb Kaitos and Diphda is the brightest star in Cetus. It is an orange-hued giant star of magnitude 2.0, 96 light-years from Earth. The traditional name "Deneb Kaitos" means "the whale's tail". γ Ceti, Kaffaljidhma ("head of the whale") is a very close double star. The primary is a blue-hued star of magnitude 3.5, 82 light-years from Earth, and the secondary is an F-type star of magnitude 6.6.^[2] Tau Ceti is noted for being a near Sun-like star at a distance of 11.9 light-years. It is a yellow-hued main-sequence star of magnitude 3.5.

AA Ceti is a triple star system; the brightest member has a magnitude of 6.2. The primary and secondary are separated by 8.4 arcseconds at an angle of 304 degrees. The tertiary is not visible in telescopes. AA Ceti is an eclipsing variable star; the tertiary star passes in front of the primary and causes the system's apparent magnitude to decrease by 0.5 magnitudes.^[3] UV Ceti is an unusual binary variable star. At 8.7 light-years from Earth, the system consists of two red dwarfs. Both of magnitude 13. One of the stars is a flare star, which are prone to sudden, random outbursts that last several minutes; these increase the pair's apparent brightness significantly - as high as magnitude 7.^[2]

Deep-sky objects

Cetus lies far from the galactic plane, so that many distant galaxies are visible, unobscured by dust from the Milky Way. Of these, the brightest is Messier 77 (NGC 1068), a 9th magnitude spiral galaxy near Delta Ceti. It appears face-on and has a clearly visible nucleus of magnitude 10. About 50 million light-years from Earth, M77 is also a Seyfert galaxy and thus a bright object in the radio spectrum.^[2] Recently, the galactic cluster JKCS 041 was confirmed to be the most distant cluster of galaxies yet discovered.^[5] The Pisces–Cetus Supercluster Complex is a galaxy filament that is one of the largest known structures in the observable Universe; it contains the Virgo supercluster which contains the Local Group of Milky Way and other galaxies.^[6]

The massive cD galaxy Holmberg 15A is also found in Cetus; as are the spiral galaxy NGC 1042, the elliptical galaxy NGC 1052 and the ultra-diffuse galaxy NGC 1052-DF2.

IC 1613 (Caldwell 51) is an irregular dwarf galaxy near the star 26 Ceti and is a member of the Local Group.

NGC 246 (Caldwell 56), also called the "Cetus Ring"^{[citation needed]}, is a planetary nebula with a magnitude of 8.0 at 1600 light-years from Earth. Among some amateur astronomers, NGC 246 has garnered the nickname "Pac-Man Nebula" because of the arrangement of its central stars and the surrounding star field.^[7]

The Wolf–Lundmark–Melotte (WLM) is a barred irregular galaxy discovered in 1909 by Max Wolf, located on the outer edges of the Local Group. The discovery of the nature of the galaxy was accredited to Knut Lundmark and Philibert Jacques Melotte in 1926.

UGC 1646, which is a spiral galaxy, also lies between the borders of the constellation. It is about 150 million light-years away from us. It can be seen near TYC 43-234-1 star.^[8]^[9]

History and mythology

Cetus may have originally been associated with a whale, which would have had mythic status amongst Mesopotamian cultures. It is often now called the Whale, though it is most strongly associated with Cetus the sea-monster, who was slain by Perseus as he saved the princess Andromeda from Poseidon's wrath. It is in the middle of "The Sea" recognised by mythologists, a set of water-associated constellations, its other members being Eridanus, Pisces, Piscis Austrinus and Aquarius.^[10]

Cetus has been depicted in many ways throughout its history. In the 17th century, Cetus was depicted as a "dragon fish" by Johann Bayer. Both Willem Blaeu and Andreas Cellarius depicted Cetus as a whale-like creature in the same century. However, Cetus has also been variously depicted with animal heads attached to a piscine body.^[10]

In global astronomy

In Chinese astronomy, the stars of Cetus are found among two areas: the Black Tortoise of the North (北方玄武, Běi Fāng Xuán Wǔ) and the White Tiger of the West (西方白虎, Xī Fāng Bái Hǔ).

The Tukano and Kobeua people of the Amazon used the stars of Cetus to create a jaguar, representing the god of hurricanes and other violent storms. Lambda, Mu, Xi, Nu, Gamma, and Alpha Ceti represented its head; Omicron, Zeta, and Chi Ceti represented its body; Eta Eri, Tau Cet, and Upsilon Cet marked its legs and feet; and Theta, Eta, and Beta Ceti delineated its tail.^[10]

In Hawaii, the constellation was called Na Kuhi, and Mira (Omicron Ceti) may have been called Kane.^[11]

Namesakes

USS Cetus (AK-77) was a United States Navy Crater class cargo ship named after the constellation.

References

^ ^a ^b "Cetus, constellation boundary". The Constellations. International Astronomical Union. Retrieved 15 February 2014.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Ridpath & Tirion 2001, pp. 114–116.
^ Levy 2005, p. 67.
^ "Hubble observes the hidden depths of Messier 77". ESA/Hubble. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
^ "Scientists identify new". Metro. 23 October 2009.
^ Tully, R. B. (April 1986). "Alignment of clusters and galaxies on scales up to 0.1 C". The Astrophysical Journal. 303: 25. Bibcode:1986ApJ...303...25T. doi:10.1086/164049. ISSN 0004-637X.
^ Levy 2005, p. 129.
^ "UGC 1646". simbad.cds.unistra.fr. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
^ "JWST Feed - Target Name: 2MASS-11595807+2807159 Title: JWST Routine Wavefront Sensing and Control for Cycle 2 Instrument: NIRCAM/IMAGE Filters: F356W Start Time: 12/21/2023 10:06:59 AM Obs Time: 85.894(s) Proposal ID: 4504". jwstfeed.com. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c Staal 1988, pp. 33–35
^ Makemson 1941, p. 281.

Bibliography

Levy, David H. (2005). Deep Sky Objects. Prometheus Books. ISBN 1-59102-361-0.
Makemson, Maud Worcester (1941). The Morning Star Rises: an account of Polynesian astronomy. Yale University Press. Bibcode:1941msra.book.....M.
Ridpath, Ian; Tirion, Wil (2001), Stars and Planets Guide, Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-08913-2
Ian Ridpath and Wil Tirion (2007). Stars and Planets Guide, Collins, London. ISBN 978-0-00-725120-9. Princeton University Press, Princeton. ISBN 978-0-691-13556-4
Staal, Julius D.W. (1988). The New Patterns in the Sky. The McDonald and Woodward Publishing Company. ISBN 0-939923-04-1.

External links

[boundary-1] "Cetus, constellation boundary". The Constellations. International Astronomical Union. Retrieved 15 February 2014.

[FOOTNOTERidpathTirion2001114–116-2] Ridpath & Tirion 2001, pp. 114–116.

[FOOTNOTELevy200567-3] Levy 2005, p. 67.

[4] "Hubble observes the hidden depths of Messier 77". ESA/Hubble. Retrieved 4 April 2013.

[5] "Scientists identify new". Metro. 23 October 2009.

[tully86-6] Tully, R. B. (April 1986). "Alignment of clusters and galaxies on scales up to 0.1 C". The Astrophysical Journal. 303: 25. Bibcode:1986ApJ...303...25T. doi:10.1086/164049. ISSN 0004-637X.

[FOOTNOTELevy2005129-7] Levy 2005, p. 129.

[8] "UGC 1646". simbad.cds.unistra.fr. Retrieved 1 January 2024.

[9] "JWST Feed - Target Name: 2MASS-11595807+2807159 Title: JWST Routine Wavefront Sensing and Control for Cycle 2 Instrument: NIRCAM/IMAGE Filters: F356W Start Time: 12/21/2023 10:06:59 AM Obs Time: 85.894(s) Proposal ID: 4504". jwstfeed.com. Retrieved 1 January 2024.

[staal-10] Staal 1988, pp. 33–35

[FOOTNOTEMakemson1941281-11] Makemson 1941, p. 281.

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Cetus

Features

Ecliptic

Stars

Deep-sky objects

History and mythology

In global astronomy

Namesakes

See also

References

Bibliography

External links

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