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 0191→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
3031
1 October 0191 2 October 0191 3 October 0191 4 October 0191 5 October 0191 6 October 0191 7 October 0191 8 October 0191 9 October 0191 10 October 0191 11 October 0191 12 October 0191 13 October 0191 14 October 0191 15 October 0191 16 October 0191 17 October 0191 18 October 0191 19 October 0191 20 October 0191 21 October 0191 22 October 0191 23 October 0191 24 October 0191 25 October 0191 26 October 0191 27 October 0191 28 October 0191 29 October 0191 30 October 0191 31 October 0191 1 November 191
MD -669873 MD -669872 MD -669871 MD -669870 MD -669869 MD -669868 MD -669867 MD -669866 MD -669865 MD -669864 MD -669863 MD -669862 MD -669861 MD -669860 MD -669859 MD -669858 MD -669857 MD -669856 MD -669855 MD -669854 MD -669853 MD -669852 MD -669851 MD -669850 MD -669849 MD -669848 MD -669847 MD -669846 MD -669845 MD -669844 MD -669843 MD -669842