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 2649→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031
1 October 2649 2 October 2649 3 October 2649 4 October 2649 5 October 2649 6 October 2649 7 October 2649 8 October 2649 9 October 2649 10 October 2649 11 October 2649 12 October 2649 13 October 2649 14 October 2649 15 October 2649 16 October 2649 17 October 2649 18 October 2649 19 October 2649 20 October 2649 21 October 2649 22 October 2649 23 October 2649 24 October 2649 25 October 2649 26 October 2649 27 October 2649 28 October 2649 29 October 2649 30 October 2649 31 October 2649 1 November 2649 11 Centaurus 552 12 Centaurus 552 13 Centaurus 552 14 Centaurus 552 15 Centaurus 552 16 Centaurus 552 17 Centaurus 552 18 Centaurus 552 19 Centaurus 552 20 Centaurus 552 21 Centaurus 552 22 Centaurus 552 23 Centaurus 552 24 Centaurus 552 25 Centaurus 552 26 Centaurus 552 27 Centaurus 552 28 Centaurus 552 1 Draco 552 2 Draco 552 3 Draco 552 4 Draco 552 5 Draco 552 6 Draco 552 7 Draco 552 8 Draco 552 9 Draco 552 10 Draco 552 11 Draco 552 12 Draco 552 13 Draco 552 14 Draco 552
MD 227893 MD 227894 MD 227895 MD 227896 MD 227897 MD 227898 MD 227899 MD 227900 MD 227901 MD 227902 MD 227903 MD 227904 MD 227905 MD 227906 MD 227907 MD 227908 MD 227909 MD 227910 MD 227911 MD 227912 MD 227913 MD 227914 MD 227915 MD 227916 MD 227917 MD 227918 MD 227919 MD 227920 MD 227921 MD 227922 MD 227923 MD 227924 MS 221742 MS 221743 MS 221744 MS 221745 MS 221746 MS 221747 MS 221748 MS 221749 MS 221750 MS 221751 MS 221752 MS 221753 MS 221754 MS 221755 MS 221756 MS 221757 MS 221758 MS 221759 MS 221760 MS 221761 MS 221762 MS 221763 MS 221764 MS 221765 MS 221766 MS 221767 MS 221768 MS 221769 MS 221770 MS 221771 MS 221772 MS 221773