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 2163→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
3031
1 October 2163 2 October 2163 3 October 2163 4 October 2163 5 October 2163 6 October 2163 7 October 2163 8 October 2163 9 October 2163 10 October 2163 11 October 2163 12 October 2163 13 October 2163 14 October 2163 15 October 2163 16 October 2163 17 October 2163 18 October 2163 19 October 2163 20 October 2163 21 October 2163 22 October 2163 23 October 2163 24 October 2163 25 October 2163 26 October 2163 27 October 2163 28 October 2163 29 October 2163 30 October 2163 31 October 2163 1 November 2163 19 Columba 294 20 Columba 294 21 Columba 294 22 Columba 294 23 Columba 294 24 Columba 294 25 Columba 294 26 Columba 294 27 Columba 294 28 Columba 294 1 Monoceros 294 2 Monoceros 294 3 Monoceros 294 4 Monoceros 294 5 Monoceros 294 6 Monoceros 294 7 Monoceros 294 8 Monoceros 294 9 Monoceros 294 10 Monoceros 294 11 Monoceros 294 12 Monoceros 294 13 Monoceros 294 14 Monoceros 294 15 Monoceros 294 16 Monoceros 294 17 Monoceros 294 18 Monoceros 294 19 Monoceros 294 20 Monoceros 294 21 Monoceros 294
MD 50385 MD 50386 MD 50387 MD 50388 MD 50389 MD 50390 MD 50391 MD 50392 MD 50393 MD 50394 MD 50395 MD 50396 MD 50397 MD 50398 MD 50399 MD 50400 MD 50401 MD 50402 MD 50403 MD 50404 MD 50405 MD 50406 MD 50407 MD 50408 MD 50409 MD 50410 MD 50411 MD 50412 MD 50413 MD 50414 MD 50415 MD 50416 MS 49032 MS 49033 MS 49034 MS 49035 MS 49036 MS 49037 MS 49038 MS 49039 MS 49040 MS 49041 MS 49042 MS 49043 MS 49044 MS 49045 MS 49046 MS 49047 MS 49048 MS 49049 MS 49050 MS 49051 MS 49052 MS 49053 MS 49054 MS 49055 MS 49056 MS 49057 MS 49058 MS 49059 MS 49060 MS 49061 MS 49062