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 1027→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031
1 October 1027 2 October 1027 3 October 1027 4 October 1027 5 October 1027 6 October 1027 7 October 1027 8 October 1027 9 October 1027 10 October 1027 11 October 1027 12 October 1027 13 October 1027 14 October 1027 15 October 1027 16 October 1027 17 October 1027 18 October 1027 19 October 1027 20 October 1027 21 October 1027 22 October 1027 23 October 1027 24 October 1027 25 October 1027 26 October 1027 27 October 1027 28 October 1027 29 October 1027 30 October 1027 31 October 1027 1 November 1027
MD -364531 MD -364530 MD -364529 MD -364528 MD -364527 MD -364526 MD -364525 MD -364524 MD -364523 MD -364522 MD -364521 MD -364520 MD -364519 MD -364518 MD -364517 MD -364516 MD -364515 MD -364514 MD -364513 MD -364512 MD -364511 MD -364510 MD -364509 MD -364508 MD -364507 MD -364506 MD -364505 MD -364504 MD -364503 MD -364502 MD -364501 MD -364500