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 1462→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031
1 October 1462 2 October 1462 3 October 1462 4 October 1462 5 October 1462 6 October 1462 7 October 1462 8 October 1462 9 October 1462 10 October 1462 11 October 1462 12 October 1462 13 October 1462 14 October 1462 15 October 1462 16 October 1462 17 October 1462 18 October 1462 19 October 1462 20 October 1462 21 October 1462 22 October 1462 23 October 1462 24 October 1462 25 October 1462 26 October 1462 27 October 1462 28 October 1462 29 October 1462 30 October 1462 31 October 1462 1 November 1462
MD -205650 MD -205649 MD -205648 MD -205647 MD -205646 MD -205645 MD -205644 MD -205643 MD -205642 MD -205641 MD -205640 MD -205639 MD -205638 MD -205637 MD -205636 MD -205635 MD -205634 MD -205633 MD -205632 MD -205631 MD -205630 MD -205629 MD -205628 MD -205627 MD -205626 MD -205625 MD -205624 MD -205623 MD -205622 MD -205621 MD -205620 MD -205619