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 3528→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031
1 October 3528 2 October 3528 3 October 3528 4 October 3528 5 October 3528 6 October 3528 7 October 3528 8 October 3528 9 October 3528 10 October 3528 11 October 3528 12 October 3528 13 October 3528 14 October 3528 15 October 3528 16 October 3528 17 October 3528 18 October 3528 19 October 3528 20 October 3528 21 October 3528 22 October 3528 23 October 3528 24 October 3528 25 October 3528 26 October 3528 27 October 3528 28 October 3528 29 October 3528 30 October 3528 31 October 3528 1 November 3528 12 Aquila 1019 13 Aquila 1019 14 Aquila 1019 15 Aquila 1019 16 Aquila 1019 17 Aquila 1019 18 Aquila 1019 19 Aquila 1019 20 Aquila 1019 21 Aquila 1019 22 Aquila 1019 23 Aquila 1019 24 Aquila 1019 25 Aquila 1019 26 Aquila 1019 27 Aquila 1019 1 Vulpecula 1019 2 Vulpecula 1019 3 Vulpecula 1019 4 Vulpecula 1019 5 Vulpecula 1019 6 Vulpecula 1019 7 Vulpecula 1019 8 Vulpecula 1019 9 Vulpecula 1019 10 Vulpecula 1019 11 Vulpecula 1019 12 Vulpecula 1019 13 Vulpecula 1019 14 Vulpecula 1019 15 Vulpecula 1019 16 Vulpecula 1019
MD 548941 MD 548942 MD 548943 MD 548944 MD 548945 MD 548946 MD 548947 MD 548948 MD 548949 MD 548950 MD 548951 MD 548952 MD 548953 MD 548954 MD 548955 MD 548956 MD 548957 MD 548958 MD 548959 MD 548960 MD 548961 MD 548962 MD 548963 MD 548964 MD 548965 MD 548966 MD 548967 MD 548968 MD 548969 MD 548970 MD 548971 MD 548972 MS 534113 MS 534114 MS 534115 MS 534116 MS 534117 MS 534118 MS 534119 MS 534120 MS 534121 MS 534122 MS 534123 MS 534124 MS 534125 MS 534126 MS 534127 MS 534128 MS 534129 MS 534130 MS 534131 MS 534132 MS 534133 MS 534134 MS 534135 MS 534136 MS 534137 MS 534138 MS 534139 MS 534140 MS 534141 MS 534142 MS 534143 MS 534144