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 1288→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
31
1 October 1288 2 October 1288 3 October 1288 4 October 1288 5 October 1288 6 October 1288 7 October 1288 8 October 1288 9 October 1288 10 October 1288 11 October 1288 12 October 1288 13 October 1288 14 October 1288 15 October 1288 16 October 1288 17 October 1288 18 October 1288 19 October 1288 20 October 1288 21 October 1288 22 October 1288 23 October 1288 24 October 1288 25 October 1288 26 October 1288 27 October 1288 28 October 1288 29 October 1288 30 October 1288 31 October 1288 1 November 1288
MD -269201 MD -269200 MD -269199 MD -269198 MD -269197 MD -269196 MD -269195 MD -269194 MD -269193 MD -269192 MD -269191 MD -269190 MD -269189 MD -269188 MD -269187 MD -269186 MD -269185 MD -269184 MD -269183 MD -269182 MD -269181 MD -269180 MD -269179 MD -269178 MD -269177 MD -269176 MD -269175 MD -269174 MD -269173 MD -269172 MD -269171 MD -269170