Monoceros, from John Flamsteed's 'Atlas Coelestis' Size:S: 30 x 25cm of an orange colour

of an orange colour

' There is an inset reference key and various explanatory captions

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The light is shown as lenticular in shape and each diagram is marked with lines of the equator

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Monoceros, from John Flamsteed's 'Atlas Coelestis' Size:S: 30 x 25cm of an orange colourThe constellation Monoceros (the unicorn), with Canis Minor, Canis major, Orion (the hunter) and Lepus (the hare). Map 13 from John Flamsteed's Atlas Coelestis, or star atlas (London, 1729). This was the first celestial atlas based on telescopic observations. Published posthumously, it was the work of the Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed FRS (1646 1719), and used the catalogue of 2935 stars in his 1725 Historia Coelestis Britannica. Original: