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 3058→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
31
1 October 3058 2 October 3058 3 October 3058 4 October 3058 5 October 3058 6 October 3058 7 October 3058 8 October 3058 9 October 3058 10 October 3058 11 October 3058 12 October 3058 13 October 3058 14 October 3058 15 October 3058 16 October 3058 17 October 3058 18 October 3058 19 October 3058 20 October 3058 21 October 3058 22 October 3058 23 October 3058 24 October 3058 25 October 3058 26 October 3058 27 October 3058 28 October 3058 29 October 3058 30 October 3058 31 October 3058 1 November 3058 24 Grus 769 25 Grus 769 26 Grus 769 27 Grus 769 28 Grus 769 1 Pegasus 769 2 Pegasus 769 3 Pegasus 769 4 Pegasus 769 5 Pegasus 769 6 Pegasus 769 7 Pegasus 769 8 Pegasus 769 9 Pegasus 769 10 Pegasus 769 11 Pegasus 769 12 Pegasus 769 13 Pegasus 769 14 Pegasus 769 15 Pegasus 769 16 Pegasus 769 17 Pegasus 769 18 Pegasus 769 19 Pegasus 769 20 Pegasus 769 21 Pegasus 769 22 Pegasus 769 23 Pegasus 769 24 Pegasus 769 25 Pegasus 769 26 Pegasus 769
MD 377277 MD 377278 MD 377279 MD 377280 MD 377281 MD 377282 MD 377283 MD 377284 MD 377285 MD 377286 MD 377287 MD 377288 MD 377289 MD 377290 MD 377291 MD 377292 MD 377293 MD 377294 MD 377295 MD 377296 MD 377297 MD 377298 MD 377299 MD 377300 MD 377301 MD 377302 MD 377303 MD 377304 MD 377305 MD 377306 MD 377307 MD 377308 MS 367089 MS 367090 MS 367091 MS 367092 MS 367093 MS 367094 MS 367095 MS 367096 MS 367097 MS 367098 MS 367099 MS 367100 MS 367101 MS 367102 MS 367103 MS 367104 MS 367105 MS 367106 MS 367107 MS 367108 MS 367109 MS 367110 MS 367111 MS 367112 MS 367113 MS 367114 MS 367115 MS 367116 MS 367117 MS 367118 MS 367119