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 0422→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
3031
1 October 0422 2 October 0422 3 October 0422 4 October 0422 5 October 0422 6 October 0422 7 October 0422 8 October 0422 9 October 0422 10 October 0422 11 October 0422 12 October 0422 13 October 0422 14 October 0422 15 October 0422 16 October 0422 17 October 0422 18 October 0422 19 October 0422 20 October 0422 21 October 0422 22 October 0422 23 October 0422 24 October 0422 25 October 0422 26 October 0422 27 October 0422 28 October 0422 29 October 0422 30 October 0422 31 October 0422 1 November 422
MD -585502 MD -585501 MD -585500 MD -585499 MD -585498 MD -585497 MD -585496 MD -585495 MD -585494 MD -585493 MD -585492 MD -585491 MD -585490 MD -585489 MD -585488 MD -585487 MD -585486 MD -585485 MD -585484 MD -585483 MD -585482 MD -585481 MD -585480 MD -585479 MD -585478 MD -585477 MD -585476 MD -585475 MD -585474 MD -585473 MD -585472 MD -585471