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 1693→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031
1 July 1693 2 July 1693 3 July 1693 4 July 1693 5 July 1693 6 July 1693 7 July 1693 8 July 1693 9 July 1693 10 July 1693 11 July 1693 12 July 1693 13 July 1693 14 July 1693 15 July 1693 16 July 1693 17 July 1693 18 July 1693 19 July 1693 20 July 1693 21 July 1693 22 July 1693 23 July 1693 24 July 1693 25 July 1693 26 July 1693 27 July 1693 28 July 1693 29 July 1693 30 July 1693 31 July 1693 1 August 1693 26 Monoceros 44 27 Monoceros 44 1 Volans 44 2 Volans 44 3 Volans 44 4 Volans 44 5 Volans 44 6 Volans 44 7 Volans 44 8 Volans 44 9 Volans 44 10 Volans 44 11 Volans 44 12 Volans 44 13 Volans 44 14 Volans 44 15 Volans 44 16 Volans 44 17 Volans 44 18 Volans 44 19 Volans 44 20 Volans 44 21 Volans 44 22 Volans 44 23 Volans 44 24 Volans 44 25 Volans 44 26 Volans 44 27 Volans 44 28 Volans 44 1 Lynx 44
MD -121370 MD -121369 MD -121368 MD -121367 MD -121366 MD -121365 MD -121364 MD -121363 MD -121362 MD -121361 MD -121360 MD -121359 MD -121358 MD -121357 MD -121356 MD -121355 MD -121354 MD -121353 MD -121352 MD -121351 MD -121350 MD -121349 MD -121348 MD -121347 MD -121346 MD -121345 MD -121344 MD -121343 MD -121342 MD -121341 MD -121340 MD -121339 MS -118081 MS -118080 MS -118079 MS -118078 MS -118077 MS -118076 MS -118075 MS -118074 MS -118073 MS -118072 MS -118071 MS -118070 MS -118069 MS -118068 MS -118067 MS -118066 MS -118065 MS -118064 MS -118063 MS -118062 MS -118061 MS -118060 MS -118059 MS -118058 MS -118057 MS -118056 MS -118055 MS -118054 MS -118053 MS -118052 MS -118051