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 2906→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
31
1 October 2906 2 October 2906 3 October 2906 4 October 2906 5 October 2906 6 October 2906 7 October 2906 8 October 2906 9 October 2906 10 October 2906 11 October 2906 12 October 2906 13 October 2906 14 October 2906 15 October 2906 16 October 2906 17 October 2906 18 October 2906 19 October 2906 20 October 2906 21 October 2906 22 October 2906 23 October 2906 24 October 2906 25 October 2906 26 October 2906 27 October 2906 28 October 2906 29 October 2906 30 October 2906 31 October 2906 1 November 2906 23 Dorado 689 24 Dorado 689 25 Dorado 689 26 Dorado 689 27 Dorado 689 28 Dorado 689 1 Lepus 689 2 Lepus 689 3 Lepus 689 4 Lepus 689 5 Lepus 689 6 Lepus 689 7 Lepus 689 8 Lepus 689 9 Lepus 689 10 Lepus 689 11 Lepus 689 12 Lepus 689 13 Lepus 689 14 Lepus 689 15 Lepus 689 16 Lepus 689 17 Lepus 689 18 Lepus 689 19 Lepus 689 20 Lepus 689 21 Lepus 689 22 Lepus 689 23 Lepus 689 24 Lepus 689 25 Lepus 689 26 Lepus 689
MD 321760 MD 321761 MD 321762 MD 321763 MD 321764 MD 321765 MD 321766 MD 321767 MD 321768 MD 321769 MD 321770 MD 321771 MD 321772 MD 321773 MD 321774 MD 321775 MD 321776 MD 321777 MD 321778 MD 321779 MD 321780 MD 321781 MD 321782 MD 321783 MD 321784 MD 321785 MD 321786 MD 321787 MD 321788 MD 321789 MD 321790 MD 321791 MS 313072 MS 313073 MS 313074 MS 313075 MS 313076 MS 313077 MS 313078 MS 313079 MS 313080 MS 313081 MS 313082 MS 313083 MS 313084 MS 313085 MS 313086 MS 313087 MS 313088 MS 313089 MS 313090 MS 313091 MS 313092 MS 313093 MS 313094 MS 313095 MS 313096 MS 313097 MS 313098 MS 313099 MS 313100 MS 313101 MS 313102 MS 313103