IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine (Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg). Via Wikipedia.
Leo
The Lion
OriginAncient
AbbreviationLeo
GenitiveLeonis
Pronunciation/ˈliːoʊ/ genitive /liːˈoʊnɪs/
LEE-oh
LocationCelestial Equator
Primary StarRegulus (α Leonis)
Right Ascention 10h 08m Declination +11° 58'
Martian Solar Lag δ(🜨→♂) +0.291h (17.5m)
Leo represents the Nemean Lion, a beast with an impenetrable hide and razor sharp claws. Some say It lived in the hills of Nemea in Greece. It originally lived on the Moon and it descended to Earth as a shooting star. Killing this creature was the first of the 12 Labors of Hercules. The hero defeated the lion by wrestling it until he could lock his arms around it and then strangled it to death. He used the lion’s own claws, the only things sharp enough, to skin the beast. From that day forward Hercules wore the pelt as his armor. The king of gods placed this king of the beasts back into the sky from where it had originally come.
www.underthesky.com
Leo 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.
←July 0355→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
31
1 July 0355 2 July 0355 3 July 0355 4 July 0355 5 July 0355 6 July 0355 7 July 0355 8 July 0355 9 July 0355 10 July 0355 11 July 0355 12 July 0355 13 July 0355 14 July 0355 15 July 0355 16 July 0355 17 July 0355 18 July 0355 19 July 0355 20 July 0355 21 July 0355 22 July 0355 23 July 0355 24 July 0355 25 July 0355 26 July 0355 27 July 0355 28 July 0355 29 July 0355 30 July 0355 31 July 0355 1 August 355
MD -610066 MD -610065 MD -610064 MD -610063 MD -610062 MD -610061 MD -610060 MD -610059 MD -610058 MD -610057 MD -610056 MD -610055 MD -610054 MD -610053 MD -610052 MD -610051 MD -610050 MD -610049 MD -610048 MD -610047 MD -610046 MD -610045 MD -610044 MD -610043 MD -610042 MD -610041 MD -610040 MD -610039 MD -610038 MD -610037 MD -610036 MD -610035