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 3568→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031
1 October 3568 2 October 3568 3 October 3568 4 October 3568 5 October 3568 6 October 3568 7 October 3568 8 October 3568 9 October 3568 10 October 3568 11 October 3568 12 October 3568 13 October 3568 14 October 3568 15 October 3568 16 October 3568 17 October 3568 18 October 3568 19 October 3568 20 October 3568 21 October 3568 22 October 3568 23 October 3568 24 October 3568 25 October 3568 26 October 3568 27 October 3568 28 October 3568 29 October 3568 30 October 3568 31 October 3568 1 November 3568 20 Tucana 1040 21 Tucana 1040 22 Tucana 1040 23 Tucana 1040 24 Tucana 1040 25 Tucana 1040 26 Tucana 1040 27 Tucana 1040 28 Tucana 1040 1 Phoenix 1041 2 Phoenix 1041 3 Phoenix 1041 4 Phoenix 1041 5 Phoenix 1041 6 Phoenix 1041 7 Phoenix 1041 8 Phoenix 1041 9 Phoenix 1041 10 Phoenix 1041 11 Phoenix 1041 12 Phoenix 1041 13 Phoenix 1041 14 Phoenix 1041 15 Phoenix 1041 16 Phoenix 1041 17 Phoenix 1041 18 Phoenix 1041 19 Phoenix 1041 20 Phoenix 1041 21 Phoenix 1041 22 Phoenix 1041
MD 563551 MD 563552 MD 563553 MD 563554 MD 563555 MD 563556 MD 563557 MD 563558 MD 563559 MD 563560 MD 563561 MD 563562 MD 563563 MD 563564 MD 563565 MD 563566 MD 563567 MD 563568 MD 563569 MD 563570 MD 563571 MD 563572 MD 563573 MD 563574 MD 563575 MD 563576 MD 563577 MD 563578 MD 563579 MD 563580 MD 563581 MD 563582 MS 548329 MS 548330 MS 548331 MS 548332 MS 548333 MS 548334 MS 548335 MS 548336 MS 548337 MS 548338 MS 548339 MS 548340 MS 548341 MS 548342 MS 548343 MS 548344 MS 548345 MS 548346 MS 548347 MS 548348 MS 548349 MS 548350 MS 548351 MS 548352 MS 548353 MS 548354 MS 548355 MS 548356 MS 548357 MS 548358 MS 548359