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 1193→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
31
1 October 1193 2 October 1193 3 October 1193 4 October 1193 5 October 1193 6 October 1193 7 October 1193 8 October 1193 9 October 1193 10 October 1193 11 October 1193 12 October 1193 13 October 1193 14 October 1193 15 October 1193 16 October 1193 17 October 1193 18 October 1193 19 October 1193 20 October 1193 21 October 1193 22 October 1193 23 October 1193 24 October 1193 25 October 1193 26 October 1193 27 October 1193 28 October 1193 29 October 1193 30 October 1193 31 October 1193 1 November 1193
MD -303900 MD -303899 MD -303898 MD -303897 MD -303896 MD -303895 MD -303894 MD -303893 MD -303892 MD -303891 MD -303890 MD -303889 MD -303888 MD -303887 MD -303886 MD -303885 MD -303884 MD -303883 MD -303882 MD -303881 MD -303880 MD -303879 MD -303878 MD -303877 MD -303876 MD -303875 MD -303874 MD -303873 MD -303872 MD -303871 MD -303870 MD -303869