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 3440→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031
1 October 3440 2 October 3440 3 October 3440 4 October 3440 5 October 3440 6 October 3440 7 October 3440 8 October 3440 9 October 3440 10 October 3440 11 October 3440 12 October 3440 13 October 3440 14 October 3440 15 October 3440 16 October 3440 17 October 3440 18 October 3440 19 October 3440 20 October 3440 21 October 3440 22 October 3440 23 October 3440 24 October 3440 25 October 3440 26 October 3440 27 October 3440 28 October 3440 29 October 3440 30 October 3440 31 October 3440 1 November 3440 23 Pegasus 972 24 Pegasus 972 25 Pegasus 972 26 Pegasus 972 27 Pegasus 972 28 Pegasus 972 1 Tucana 972 2 Tucana 972 3 Tucana 972 4 Tucana 972 5 Tucana 972 6 Tucana 972 7 Tucana 972 8 Tucana 972 9 Tucana 972 10 Tucana 972 11 Tucana 972 12 Tucana 972 13 Tucana 972 14 Tucana 972 15 Tucana 972 16 Tucana 972 17 Tucana 972 18 Tucana 972 19 Tucana 972 20 Tucana 972 21 Tucana 972 22 Tucana 972 23 Tucana 972 24 Tucana 972 25 Tucana 972
MD 516800 MD 516801 MD 516802 MD 516803 MD 516804 MD 516805 MD 516806 MD 516807 MD 516808 MD 516809 MD 516810 MD 516811 MD 516812 MD 516813 MD 516814 MD 516815 MD 516816 MD 516817 MD 516818 MD 516819 MD 516820 MD 516821 MD 516822 MD 516823 MD 516824 MD 516825 MD 516826 MD 516827 MD 516828 MD 516829 MD 516830 MD 516831 MS 502841 MS 502842 MS 502843 MS 502844 MS 502845 MS 502846 MS 502847 MS 502848 MS 502849 MS 502850 MS 502851 MS 502852 MS 502853 MS 502854 MS 502855 MS 502856 MS 502857 MS 502858 MS 502859 MS 502860 MS 502861 MS 502862 MS 502863 MS 502864 MS 502865 MS 502866 MS 502867 MS 502868 MS 502869 MS 502870 MS 502871