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 2103→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031
1 October 2103 2 October 2103 3 October 2103 4 October 2103 5 October 2103 6 October 2103 7 October 2103 8 October 2103 9 October 2103 10 October 2103 11 October 2103 12 October 2103 13 October 2103 14 October 2103 15 October 2103 16 October 2103 17 October 2103 18 October 2103 19 October 2103 20 October 2103 21 October 2103 22 October 2103 23 October 2103 24 October 2103 25 October 2103 26 October 2103 27 October 2103 28 October 2103 29 October 2103 30 October 2103 31 October 2103 1 November 2103 8 Lynx 262 9 Lynx 262 10 Lynx 262 11 Lynx 262 12 Lynx 262 13 Lynx 262 14 Lynx 262 15 Lynx 262 16 Lynx 262 17 Lynx 262 18 Lynx 262 19 Lynx 262 20 Lynx 262 21 Lynx 262 22 Lynx 262 23 Lynx 262 24 Lynx 262 25 Lynx 262 26 Lynx 262 27 Lynx 262 28 Lynx 262 1 Camelopardalis 262 2 Camelopardalis 262 3 Camelopardalis 262 4 Camelopardalis 262 5 Camelopardalis 262 6 Camelopardalis 262 7 Camelopardalis 262 8 Camelopardalis 262 9 Camelopardalis 262 10 Camelopardalis 262
MD 28470 MD 28471 MD 28472 MD 28473 MD 28474 MD 28475 MD 28476 MD 28477 MD 28478 MD 28479 MD 28480 MD 28481 MD 28482 MD 28483 MD 28484 MD 28485 MD 28486 MD 28487 MD 28488 MD 28489 MD 28490 MD 28491 MD 28492 MD 28493 MD 28494 MD 28495 MD 28496 MD 28497 MD 28498 MD 28499 MD 28500 MD 28501 MS 27709 MS 27710 MS 27711 MS 27712 MS 27713 MS 27714 MS 27715 MS 27716 MS 27717 MS 27718 MS 27719 MS 27720 MS 27721 MS 27722 MS 27723 MS 27724 MS 27725 MS 27726 MS 27727 MS 27728 MS 27729 MS 27730 MS 27731 MS 27732 MS 27733 MS 27734 MS 27735 MS 27736 MS 27737 MS 27738 MS 27739