Eyes Full Of Stars

This time we explore a constellation as elusive as the creature it represents, Monoceros – the Unicorn. Located east of Orion and in between the two dogs, Canis Major and Canis Minor, Monoceros is a collection of faint stars lying along the plane of the Milky Way. With a name derived from the Greek monokeros meaning unicorn, it is one of a few star patterns in the northern hemisphere with a modern history

European cartographers first added the mythical beast to other established constellations in the early 17th Century. Dutch mapmaker, Petrus Plancius, included it on his celestial globe published around 1613. Jakob Bartsch, a German astronomer, used the Latin name, Unicornus and added it to his star charts in 1624.