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 0571→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031
1 October 0571 2 October 0571 3 October 0571 4 October 0571 5 October 0571 6 October 0571 7 October 0571 8 October 0571 9 October 0571 10 October 0571 11 October 0571 12 October 0571 13 October 0571 14 October 0571 15 October 0571 16 October 0571 17 October 0571 18 October 0571 19 October 0571 20 October 0571 21 October 0571 22 October 0571 23 October 0571 24 October 0571 25 October 0571 26 October 0571 27 October 0571 28 October 0571 29 October 0571 30 October 0571 31 October 0571 1 November 571
MD -531081 MD -531080 MD -531079 MD -531078 MD -531077 MD -531076 MD -531075 MD -531074 MD -531073 MD -531072 MD -531071 MD -531070 MD -531069 MD -531068 MD -531067 MD -531066 MD -531065 MD -531064 MD -531063 MD -531062 MD -531061 MD -531060 MD -531059 MD -531058 MD -531057 MD -531056 MD -531055 MD -531054 MD -531053 MD -531052 MD -531051 MD -531050