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 -0016→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031
1 October -0016 2 October -0016 3 October -0016 4 October -0016 5 October -0016 6 October -0016 7 October -0016 8 October -0016 9 October -0016 10 October -0016 11 October -0016 12 October -0016 13 October -0016 14 October -0016 15 October -0016 16 October -0016 17 October -0016 18 October -0016 19 October -0016 20 October -0016 21 October -0016 22 October -0016 23 October -0016 24 October -0016 25 October -0016 26 October -0016 27 October -0016 28 October -0016 29 October -0016 30 October -0016 31 October -0016 1 November -16
MD -745478 MD -745477 MD -745476 MD -745475 MD -745474 MD -745473 MD -745472 MD -745471 MD -745470 MD -745469 MD -745468 MD -745467 MD -745466 MD -745465 MD -745464 MD -745463 MD -745462 MD -745461 MD -745460 MD -745459 MD -745458 MD -745457 MD -745456 MD -745455 MD -745454 MD -745453 MD -745452 MD -745451 MD -745450 MD -745449 MD -745448 MD -745447