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 2539→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031
1 October 2539 2 October 2539 3 October 2539 4 October 2539 5 October 2539 6 October 2539 7 October 2539 8 October 2539 9 October 2539 10 October 2539 11 October 2539 12 October 2539 13 October 2539 14 October 2539 15 October 2539 16 October 2539 17 October 2539 18 October 2539 19 October 2539 20 October 2539 21 October 2539 22 October 2539 23 October 2539 24 October 2539 25 October 2539 26 October 2539 27 October 2539 28 October 2539 29 October 2539 30 October 2539 31 October 2539 1 November 2539 4 Cetus 494 5 Cetus 494 6 Cetus 494 7 Cetus 494 8 Cetus 494 9 Cetus 494 10 Cetus 494 11 Cetus 494 12 Cetus 494 13 Cetus 494 14 Cetus 494 15 Cetus 494 16 Cetus 494 17 Cetus 494 18 Cetus 494 19 Cetus 494 20 Cetus 494 21 Cetus 494 22 Cetus 494 23 Cetus 494 24 Cetus 494 25 Cetus 494 26 Cetus 494 27 Cetus 494 28 Cetus 494 1 Dorado 494 2 Dorado 494 3 Dorado 494 4 Dorado 494 5 Dorado 494 6 Dorado 494
MD 187716 MD 187717 MD 187718 MD 187719 MD 187720 MD 187721 MD 187722 MD 187723 MD 187724 MD 187725 MD 187726 MD 187727 MD 187728 MD 187729 MD 187730 MD 187731 MD 187732 MD 187733 MD 187734 MD 187735 MD 187736 MD 187737 MD 187738 MD 187739 MD 187740 MD 187741 MD 187742 MD 187743 MD 187744 MD 187745 MD 187746 MD 187747 MS 182651 MS 182652 MS 182653 MS 182654 MS 182655 MS 182656 MS 182657 MS 182658 MS 182659 MS 182660 MS 182661 MS 182662 MS 182663 MS 182664 MS 182665 MS 182666 MS 182667 MS 182668 MS 182669 MS 182670 MS 182671 MS 182672 MS 182673 MS 182674 MS 182675 MS 182676 MS 182677 MS 182678 MS 182679 MS 182680 MS 182681