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 2259→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
3031
1 October 2259 2 October 2259 3 October 2259 4 October 2259 5 October 2259 6 October 2259 7 October 2259 8 October 2259 9 October 2259 10 October 2259 11 October 2259 12 October 2259 13 October 2259 14 October 2259 15 October 2259 16 October 2259 17 October 2259 18 October 2259 19 October 2259 20 October 2259 21 October 2259 22 October 2259 23 October 2259 24 October 2259 25 October 2259 26 October 2259 27 October 2259 28 October 2259 29 October 2259 30 October 2259 31 October 2259 1 November 2259 9 Monoceros 345 10 Monoceros 345 11 Monoceros 345 12 Monoceros 345 13 Monoceros 345 14 Monoceros 345 15 Monoceros 345 16 Monoceros 345 17 Monoceros 345 18 Monoceros 345 19 Monoceros 345 20 Monoceros 345 21 Monoceros 345 22 Monoceros 345 23 Monoceros 345 24 Monoceros 345 25 Monoceros 345 26 Monoceros 345 27 Monoceros 345 1 Volans 345 2 Volans 345 3 Volans 345 4 Volans 345 5 Volans 345 6 Volans 345 7 Volans 345 8 Volans 345 9 Volans 345 10 Volans 345 11 Volans 345 12 Volans 345
MD 85448 MD 85449 MD 85450 MD 85451 MD 85452 MD 85453 MD 85454 MD 85455 MD 85456 MD 85457 MD 85458 MD 85459 MD 85460 MD 85461 MD 85462 MD 85463 MD 85464 MD 85465 MD 85466 MD 85467 MD 85468 MD 85469 MD 85470 MD 85471 MD 85472 MD 85473 MD 85474 MD 85475 MD 85476 MD 85477 MD 85478 MD 85479 MS 83147 MS 83148 MS 83149 MS 83150 MS 83151 MS 83152 MS 83153 MS 83154 MS 83155 MS 83156 MS 83157 MS 83158 MS 83159 MS 83160 MS 83161 MS 83162 MS 83163 MS 83164 MS 83165 MS 83166 MS 83167 MS 83168 MS 83169 MS 83170 MS 83171 MS 83172 MS 83173 MS 83174 MS 83175 MS 83176 MS 83177