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 1515→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
31
1 October 1515 2 October 1515 3 October 1515 4 October 1515 5 October 1515 6 October 1515 7 October 1515 8 October 1515 9 October 1515 10 October 1515 11 October 1515 12 October 1515 13 October 1515 14 October 1515 15 October 1515 16 October 1515 17 October 1515 18 October 1515 19 October 1515 20 October 1515 21 October 1515 22 October 1515 23 October 1515 24 October 1515 25 October 1515 26 October 1515 27 October 1515 28 October 1515 29 October 1515 30 October 1515 31 October 1515 1 November 1515
MD -186293 MD -186292 MD -186291 MD -186290 MD -186289 MD -186288 MD -186287 MD -186286 MD -186285 MD -186284 MD -186283 MD -186282 MD -186281 MD -186280 MD -186279 MD -186278 MD -186277 MD -186276 MD -186275 MD -186274 MD -186273 MD -186272 MD -186271 MD -186270 MD -186269 MD -186268 MD -186267 MD -186266 MD -186265 MD -186264 MD -186263 MD -186262