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 0671→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031
1 October 0671 2 October 0671 3 October 0671 4 October 0671 5 October 0671 6 October 0671 7 October 0671 8 October 0671 9 October 0671 10 October 0671 11 October 0671 12 October 0671 13 October 0671 14 October 0671 15 October 0671 16 October 0671 17 October 0671 18 October 0671 19 October 0671 20 October 0671 21 October 0671 22 October 0671 23 October 0671 24 October 0671 25 October 0671 26 October 0671 27 October 0671 28 October 0671 29 October 0671 30 October 0671 31 October 0671 1 November 671
MD -494557 MD -494556 MD -494555 MD -494554 MD -494553 MD -494552 MD -494551 MD -494550 MD -494549 MD -494548 MD -494547 MD -494546 MD -494545 MD -494544 MD -494543 MD -494542 MD -494541 MD -494540 MD -494539 MD -494538 MD -494537 MD -494536 MD -494535 MD -494534 MD -494533 MD -494532 MD -494531 MD -494530 MD -494529 MD -494528 MD -494527 MD -494526