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 3682→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031
1 October 3682 2 October 3682 3 October 3682 4 October 3682 5 October 3682 6 October 3682 7 October 3682 8 October 3682 9 October 3682 10 October 3682 11 October 3682 12 October 3682 13 October 3682 14 October 3682 15 October 3682 16 October 3682 17 October 3682 18 October 3682 19 October 3682 20 October 3682 21 October 3682 22 October 3682 23 October 3682 24 October 3682 25 October 3682 26 October 3682 27 October 3682 28 October 3682 29 October 3682 30 October 3682 31 October 3682 1 November 3682 27 Draco 1101 28 Draco 1101 1 Lupus 1101 2 Lupus 1101 3 Lupus 1101 4 Lupus 1101 5 Lupus 1101 6 Lupus 1101 7 Lupus 1101 8 Lupus 1101 9 Lupus 1101 10 Lupus 1101 11 Lupus 1101 12 Lupus 1101 13 Lupus 1101 14 Lupus 1101 15 Lupus 1101 16 Lupus 1101 17 Lupus 1101 18 Lupus 1101 19 Lupus 1101 20 Lupus 1101 21 Lupus 1101 22 Lupus 1101 23 Lupus 1101 24 Lupus 1101 25 Lupus 1101 26 Lupus 1101 27 Lupus 1101 28 Lupus 1101 1 Apus 1101
MD 605189 MD 605190 MD 605191 MD 605192 MD 605193 MD 605194 MD 605195 MD 605196 MD 605197 MD 605198 MD 605199 MD 605200 MD 605201 MD 605202 MD 605203 MD 605204 MD 605205 MD 605206 MD 605207 MD 605208 MD 605209 MD 605210 MD 605211 MD 605212 MD 605213 MD 605214 MD 605215 MD 605216 MD 605217 MD 605218 MD 605219 MD 605220 MS 588841 MS 588842 MS 588843 MS 588844 MS 588845 MS 588846 MS 588847 MS 588848 MS 588849 MS 588850 MS 588851 MS 588852 MS 588853 MS 588854 MS 588855 MS 588856 MS 588857 MS 588858 MS 588859 MS 588860 MS 588861 MS 588862 MS 588863 MS 588864 MS 588865 MS 588866 MS 588867 MS 588868 MS 588869 MS 588870 MS 588871