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 1547→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031
1 October 1547 2 October 1547 3 October 1547 4 October 1547 5 October 1547 6 October 1547 7 October 1547 8 October 1547 9 October 1547 10 October 1547 11 October 1547 12 October 1547 13 October 1547 14 October 1547 15 October 1547 16 October 1547 17 October 1547 18 October 1547 19 October 1547 20 October 1547 21 October 1547 22 October 1547 23 October 1547 24 October 1547 25 October 1547 26 October 1547 27 October 1547 28 October 1547 29 October 1547 30 October 1547 31 October 1547 1 November 1547
MD -174605 MD -174604 MD -174603 MD -174602 MD -174601 MD -174600 MD -174599 MD -174598 MD -174597 MD -174596 MD -174595 MD -174594 MD -174593 MD -174592 MD -174591 MD -174590 MD -174589 MD -174588 MD -174587 MD -174586 MD -174585 MD -174584 MD -174583 MD -174582 MD -174581 MD -174580 MD -174579 MD -174578 MD -174577 MD -174576 MD -174575 MD -174574