IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine (Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg). Via Wikipedia.
Scorpius
The Scorpion
OriginAncient
AbbreviationSco
GenitiveScorpii
Pronunciation/ˈskɔːrpiəs/ genitive /ˈskɔːrpiaɪ/
SCOR-pee-us
LocationSouthern Hemisphere
Primary StarAntares (α Scorpii)
Right Ascention 16h 29m Declination -26° 26'
Martian Solar Lag δ(🜨→♂) +0.474h (28.4m)
Scorpius is the scorpion sent by Hera to kill Orion, the hunter who boasted that there was no beast that could kill him. The scorpion was crushed by Orion, but not before delivering a fatal sting. Hera placed the scorpion in the night sky as the constellation Scorpius.
www.underthesky.com
Scorpius as depicted by Johannes Hevelius in his Firmamentum Sobiescianum sive Uranographia (1687). Source image provided by www.RareMaps.com — Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc. Via www.underthenightsky.com.
←October -0015→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031
1 October -0015 2 October -0015 3 October -0015 4 October -0015 5 October -0015 6 October -0015 7 October -0015 8 October -0015 9 October -0015 10 October -0015 11 October -0015 12 October -0015 13 October -0015 14 October -0015 15 October -0015 16 October -0015 17 October -0015 18 October -0015 19 October -0015 20 October -0015 21 October -0015 22 October -0015 23 October -0015 24 October -0015 25 October -0015 26 October -0015 27 October -0015 28 October -0015 29 October -0015 30 October -0015 31 October -0015 1 November -15
MD -745113 MD -745112 MD -745111 MD -745110 MD -745109 MD -745108 MD -745107 MD -745106 MD -745105 MD -745104 MD -745103 MD -745102 MD -745101 MD -745100 MD -745099 MD -745098 MD -745097 MD -745096 MD -745095 MD -745094 MD -745093 MD -745092 MD -745091 MD -745090 MD -745089 MD -745088 MD -745087 MD -745086 MD -745085 MD -745084 MD -745083 MD -745082