Note the fine star cluster (46 M.).
The star Markeb forms a small triangle with two other stars near it.
The Egyptians believed that this was the ark that bore Osiris and Isis over the Deluge.
The constellation contains two noted objects invisible in this latitude, Canopus, the second brightest star, and the remarkable variable star η.
MONOCEROS (mō-nos´-e-ros)—THE UNICORN. (Face South.)
Location.—Monoceros is to be found east of Orion between Canis Major and Canis Minor. Three of its stars of the fourth magnitude form a straight line northeast and southwest, about 9° east of Betelgeuze, and about the same distance south of Alhena, in Gemini.
The region around the stars 8, 13, 17 is particularly rich when viewed with an opera-glass.