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 1049→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031
1 October 1049 2 October 1049 3 October 1049 4 October 1049 5 October 1049 6 October 1049 7 October 1049 8 October 1049 9 October 1049 10 October 1049 11 October 1049 12 October 1049 13 October 1049 14 October 1049 15 October 1049 16 October 1049 17 October 1049 18 October 1049 19 October 1049 20 October 1049 21 October 1049 22 October 1049 23 October 1049 24 October 1049 25 October 1049 26 October 1049 27 October 1049 28 October 1049 29 October 1049 30 October 1049 31 October 1049 1 November 1049
MD -356495 MD -356494 MD -356493 MD -356492 MD -356491 MD -356490 MD -356489 MD -356488 MD -356487 MD -356486 MD -356485 MD -356484 MD -356483 MD -356482 MD -356481 MD -356480 MD -356479 MD -356478 MD -356477 MD -356476 MD -356475 MD -356474 MD -356473 MD -356472 MD -356471 MD -356470 MD -356469 MD -356468 MD -356467 MD -356466 MD -356465 MD -356464