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 2306→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031
1 October 2306 2 October 2306 3 October 2306 4 October 2306 5 October 2306 6 October 2306 7 October 2306 8 October 2306 9 October 2306 10 October 2306 11 October 2306 12 October 2306 13 October 2306 14 October 2306 15 October 2306 16 October 2306 17 October 2306 18 October 2306 19 October 2306 20 October 2306 21 October 2306 22 October 2306 23 October 2306 24 October 2306 25 October 2306 26 October 2306 27 October 2306 28 October 2306 29 October 2306 30 October 2306 31 October 2306 1 November 2306 24 Columba 370 25 Columba 370 26 Columba 370 27 Columba 370 28 Columba 370 1 Monoceros 370 2 Monoceros 370 3 Monoceros 370 4 Monoceros 370 5 Monoceros 370 6 Monoceros 370 7 Monoceros 370 8 Monoceros 370 9 Monoceros 370 10 Monoceros 370 11 Monoceros 370 12 Monoceros 370 13 Monoceros 370 14 Monoceros 370 15 Monoceros 370 16 Monoceros 370 17 Monoceros 370 18 Monoceros 370 19 Monoceros 370 20 Monoceros 370 21 Monoceros 370 22 Monoceros 370 23 Monoceros 370 24 Monoceros 370 25 Monoceros 370 26 Monoceros 370 27 Monoceros 370
MD 102614 MD 102615 MD 102616 MD 102617 MD 102618 MD 102619 MD 102620 MD 102621 MD 102622 MD 102623 MD 102624 MD 102625 MD 102626 MD 102627 MD 102628 MD 102629 MD 102630 MD 102631 MD 102632 MD 102633 MD 102634 MD 102635 MD 102636 MD 102637 MD 102638 MD 102639 MD 102640 MD 102641 MD 102642 MD 102643 MD 102644 MD 102645 MS 99849 MS 99850 MS 99851 MS 99852 MS 99853 MS 99854 MS 99855 MS 99856 MS 99857 MS 99858 MS 99859 MS 99860 MS 99861 MS 99862 MS 99863 MS 99864 MS 99865 MS 99866 MS 99867 MS 99868 MS 99869 MS 99870 MS 99871 MS 99872 MS 99873 MS 99874 MS 99875 MS 99876 MS 99877 MS 99878 MS 99879 MS 99880