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 0280→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
31
1 October 0280 2 October 0280 3 October 0280 4 October 0280 5 October 0280 6 October 0280 7 October 0280 8 October 0280 9 October 0280 10 October 0280 11 October 0280 12 October 0280 13 October 0280 14 October 0280 15 October 0280 16 October 0280 17 October 0280 18 October 0280 19 October 0280 20 October 0280 21 October 0280 22 October 0280 23 October 0280 24 October 0280 25 October 0280 26 October 0280 27 October 0280 28 October 0280 29 October 0280 30 October 0280 31 October 0280 1 November 280
MD -637366 MD -637365 MD -637364 MD -637363 MD -637362 MD -637361 MD -637360 MD -637359 MD -637358 MD -637357 MD -637356 MD -637355 MD -637354 MD -637353 MD -637352 MD -637351 MD -637350 MD -637349 MD -637348 MD -637347 MD -637346 MD -637345 MD -637344 MD -637343 MD -637342 MD -637341 MD -637340 MD -637339 MD -637338 MD -637337 MD -637336 MD -637335