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 1405→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031
1 October 1405 2 October 1405 3 October 1405 4 October 1405 5 October 1405 6 October 1405 7 October 1405 8 October 1405 9 October 1405 10 October 1405 11 October 1405 12 October 1405 13 October 1405 14 October 1405 15 October 1405 16 October 1405 17 October 1405 18 October 1405 19 October 1405 20 October 1405 21 October 1405 22 October 1405 23 October 1405 24 October 1405 25 October 1405 26 October 1405 27 October 1405 28 October 1405 29 October 1405 30 October 1405 31 October 1405 1 November 1405
MD -226469 MD -226468 MD -226467 MD -226466 MD -226465 MD -226464 MD -226463 MD -226462 MD -226461 MD -226460 MD -226459 MD -226458 MD -226457 MD -226456 MD -226455 MD -226454 MD -226453 MD -226452 MD -226451 MD -226450 MD -226449 MD -226448 MD -226447 MD -226446 MD -226445 MD -226444 MD -226443 MD -226442 MD -226441 MD -226440 MD -226439 MD -226438