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 2604→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031
1 October 2604 2 October 2604 3 October 2604 4 October 2604 5 October 2604 6 October 2604 7 October 2604 8 October 2604 9 October 2604 10 October 2604 11 October 2604 12 October 2604 13 October 2604 14 October 2604 15 October 2604 16 October 2604 17 October 2604 18 October 2604 19 October 2604 20 October 2604 21 October 2604 22 October 2604 23 October 2604 24 October 2604 25 October 2604 26 October 2604 27 October 2604 28 October 2604 29 October 2604 30 October 2604 31 October 2604 1 November 2604 11 Lupus 528 12 Lupus 528 13 Lupus 528 14 Lupus 528 15 Lupus 528 16 Lupus 528 17 Lupus 528 18 Lupus 528 19 Lupus 528 20 Lupus 528 21 Lupus 528 22 Lupus 528 23 Lupus 528 24 Lupus 528 25 Lupus 528 26 Lupus 528 27 Lupus 528 28 Lupus 528 1 Apus 528 2 Apus 528 3 Apus 528 4 Apus 528 5 Apus 528 6 Apus 528 7 Apus 528 8 Apus 528 9 Apus 528 10 Apus 528 11 Apus 528 12 Apus 528 13 Apus 528
MD 211457 MD 211458 MD 211459 MD 211460 MD 211461 MD 211462 MD 211463 MD 211464 MD 211465 MD 211466 MD 211467 MD 211468 MD 211469 MD 211470 MD 211471 MD 211472 MD 211473 MD 211474 MD 211475 MD 211476 MD 211477 MD 211478 MD 211479 MD 211480 MD 211481 MD 211482 MD 211483 MD 211484 MD 211485 MD 211486 MD 211487 MD 211488 MS 205751 MS 205752 MS 205753 MS 205754 MS 205755 MS 205756 MS 205757 MS 205758 MS 205759 MS 205760 MS 205761 MS 205762 MS 205763 MS 205764 MS 205765 MS 205766 MS 205767 MS 205768 MS 205769 MS 205770 MS 205771 MS 205772 MS 205773 MS 205774 MS 205775 MS 205776 MS 205777 MS 205778 MS 205779 MS 205780 MS 205781