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 2518→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
3031
1 October 2518 2 October 2518 3 October 2518 4 October 2518 5 October 2518 6 October 2518 7 October 2518 8 October 2518 9 October 2518 10 October 2518 11 October 2518 12 October 2518 13 October 2518 14 October 2518 15 October 2518 16 October 2518 17 October 2518 18 October 2518 19 October 2518 20 October 2518 21 October 2518 22 October 2518 23 October 2518 24 October 2518 25 October 2518 26 October 2518 27 October 2518 28 October 2518 29 October 2518 30 October 2518 31 October 2518 1 November 2518 8 Grus 482 9 Grus 482 10 Grus 482 11 Grus 482 12 Grus 482 13 Grus 482 14 Grus 482 15 Grus 482 16 Grus 482 17 Grus 482 18 Grus 482 19 Grus 482 20 Grus 482 21 Grus 482 22 Grus 482 23 Grus 482 24 Grus 482 25 Grus 482 26 Grus 482 27 Grus 482 28 Grus 482 1 Pegasus 482 2 Pegasus 482 3 Pegasus 482 4 Pegasus 482 5 Pegasus 482 6 Pegasus 482 7 Pegasus 482 8 Pegasus 482 9 Pegasus 482 10 Pegasus 482
MD 180046 MD 180047 MD 180048 MD 180049 MD 180050 MD 180051 MD 180052 MD 180053 MD 180054 MD 180055 MD 180056 MD 180057 MD 180058 MD 180059 MD 180060 MD 180061 MD 180062 MD 180063 MD 180064 MD 180065 MD 180066 MD 180067 MD 180068 MD 180069 MD 180070 MD 180071 MD 180072 MD 180073 MD 180074 MD 180075 MD 180076 MD 180077 MS 175189 MS 175190 MS 175191 MS 175192 MS 175193 MS 175194 MS 175195 MS 175196 MS 175197 MS 175198 MS 175199 MS 175200 MS 175201 MS 175202 MS 175203 MS 175204 MS 175205 MS 175206 MS 175207 MS 175208 MS 175209 MS 175210 MS 175211 MS 175212 MS 175213 MS 175214 MS 175215 MS 175216 MS 175217 MS 175218 MS 175219