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 3302→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031
1 October 3302 2 October 3302 3 October 3302 4 October 3302 5 October 3302 6 October 3302 7 October 3302 8 October 3302 9 October 3302 10 October 3302 11 October 3302 12 October 3302 13 October 3302 14 October 3302 15 October 3302 16 October 3302 17 October 3302 18 October 3302 19 October 3302 20 October 3302 21 October 3302 22 October 3302 23 October 3302 24 October 3302 25 October 3302 26 October 3302 27 October 3302 28 October 3302 29 October 3302 30 October 3302 31 October 3302 1 November 3302 12 Lupus 899 13 Lupus 899 14 Lupus 899 15 Lupus 899 16 Lupus 899 17 Lupus 899 18 Lupus 899 19 Lupus 899 20 Lupus 899 21 Lupus 899 22 Lupus 899 23 Lupus 899 24 Lupus 899 25 Lupus 899 26 Lupus 899 27 Lupus 899 28 Lupus 899 1 Apus 899 2 Apus 899 3 Apus 899 4 Apus 899 5 Apus 899 6 Apus 899 7 Apus 899 8 Apus 899 9 Apus 899 10 Apus 899 11 Apus 899 12 Apus 899 13 Apus 899 14 Apus 899 15 Apus 899
MD 466396 MD 466397 MD 466398 MD 466399 MD 466400 MD 466401 MD 466402 MD 466403 MD 466404 MD 466405 MD 466406 MD 466407 MD 466408 MD 466409 MD 466410 MD 466411 MD 466412 MD 466413 MD 466414 MD 466415 MD 466416 MD 466417 MD 466418 MD 466419 MD 466420 MD 466421 MD 466422 MD 466423 MD 466424 MD 466425 MD 466426 MD 466427 MS 453799 MS 453800 MS 453801 MS 453802 MS 453803 MS 453804 MS 453805 MS 453806 MS 453807 MS 453808 MS 453809 MS 453810 MS 453811 MS 453812 MS 453813 MS 453814 MS 453815 MS 453816 MS 453817 MS 453818 MS 453819 MS 453820 MS 453821 MS 453822 MS 453823 MS 453824 MS 453825 MS 453826 MS 453827 MS 453828 MS 453829 MS 453830