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 1026→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031
1 October 1026 2 October 1026 3 October 1026 4 October 1026 5 October 1026 6 October 1026 7 October 1026 8 October 1026 9 October 1026 10 October 1026 11 October 1026 12 October 1026 13 October 1026 14 October 1026 15 October 1026 16 October 1026 17 October 1026 18 October 1026 19 October 1026 20 October 1026 21 October 1026 22 October 1026 23 October 1026 24 October 1026 25 October 1026 26 October 1026 27 October 1026 28 October 1026 29 October 1026 30 October 1026 31 October 1026 1 November 1026
MD -364896 MD -364895 MD -364894 MD -364893 MD -364892 MD -364891 MD -364890 MD -364889 MD -364888 MD -364887 MD -364886 MD -364885 MD -364884 MD -364883 MD -364882 MD -364881 MD -364880 MD -364879 MD -364878 MD -364877 MD -364876 MD -364875 MD -364874 MD -364873 MD -364872 MD -364871 MD -364870 MD -364869 MD -364868 MD -364867 MD -364866 MD -364865