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 2358→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031
1 October 2358 2 October 2358 3 October 2358 4 October 2358 5 October 2358 6 October 2358 7 October 2358 8 October 2358 9 October 2358 10 October 2358 11 October 2358 12 October 2358 13 October 2358 14 October 2358 15 October 2358 16 October 2358 17 October 2358 18 October 2358 19 October 2358 20 October 2358 21 October 2358 22 October 2358 23 October 2358 24 October 2358 25 October 2358 26 October 2358 27 October 2358 28 October 2358 29 October 2358 30 October 2358 31 October 2358 1 November 2358 7 Delphinus 397 8 Delphinus 397 9 Delphinus 397 10 Delphinus 397 11 Delphinus 397 12 Delphinus 397 13 Delphinus 397 14 Delphinus 397 15 Delphinus 397 16 Delphinus 397 17 Delphinus 397 18 Delphinus 397 19 Delphinus 397 20 Delphinus 397 21 Delphinus 397 22 Delphinus 397 23 Delphinus 397 24 Delphinus 397 25 Delphinus 397 26 Delphinus 397 27 Delphinus 397 28 Delphinus 397 1 Grus 397 2 Grus 397 3 Grus 397 4 Grus 397 5 Grus 397 6 Grus 397 7 Grus 397 8 Grus 397 9 Grus 397
MD 121607 MD 121608 MD 121609 MD 121610 MD 121611 MD 121612 MD 121613 MD 121614 MD 121615 MD 121616 MD 121617 MD 121618 MD 121619 MD 121620 MD 121621 MD 121622 MD 121623 MD 121624 MD 121625 MD 121626 MD 121627 MD 121628 MD 121629 MD 121630 MD 121631 MD 121632 MD 121633 MD 121634 MD 121635 MD 121636 MD 121637 MD 121638 MS 118329 MS 118330 MS 118331 MS 118332 MS 118333 MS 118334 MS 118335 MS 118336 MS 118337 MS 118338 MS 118339 MS 118340 MS 118341 MS 118342 MS 118343 MS 118344 MS 118345 MS 118346 MS 118347 MS 118348 MS 118349 MS 118350 MS 118351 MS 118352 MS 118353 MS 118354 MS 118355 MS 118356 MS 118357 MS 118358 MS 118359