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 1903→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031
1 July 1903 2 July 1903 3 July 1903 4 July 1903 5 July 1903 6 July 1903 7 July 1903 8 July 1903 9 July 1903 10 July 1903 11 July 1903 12 July 1903 13 July 1903 14 July 1903 15 July 1903 16 July 1903 17 July 1903 18 July 1903 19 July 1903 20 July 1903 21 July 1903 22 July 1903 23 July 1903 24 July 1903 25 July 1903 26 July 1903 27 July 1903 28 July 1903 29 July 1903 30 July 1903 31 July 1903 1 August 1903 22 Delphinus 155 23 Delphinus 155 24 Delphinus 155 25 Delphinus 155 26 Delphinus 155 27 Delphinus 155 28 Delphinus 155 1 Grus 155 2 Grus 155 3 Grus 155 4 Grus 155 5 Grus 155 6 Grus 155 7 Grus 155 8 Grus 155 9 Grus 155 10 Grus 155 11 Grus 155 12 Grus 155 13 Grus 155 14 Grus 155 15 Grus 155 16 Grus 155 17 Grus 155 18 Grus 155 19 Grus 155 20 Grus 155 21 Grus 155 22 Grus 155 23 Grus 155 24 Grus 155
MD -44671 MD -44670 MD -44669 MD -44668 MD -44667 MD -44666 MD -44665 MD -44664 MD -44663 MD -44662 MD -44661 MD -44660 MD -44659 MD -44658 MD -44657 MD -44656 MD -44655 MD -44654 MD -44653 MD -44652 MD -44651 MD -44650 MD -44649 MD -44648 MD -44647 MD -44646 MD -44645 MD -44644 MD -44643 MD -44642 MD -44641 MD -44640 MS -43455 MS -43454 MS -43453 MS -43452 MS -43451 MS -43450 MS -43449 MS -43448 MS -43447 MS -43446 MS -43445 MS -43444 MS -43443 MS -43442 MS -43441 MS -43440 MS -43439 MS -43438 MS -43437 MS -43436 MS -43435 MS -43434 MS -43433 MS -43432 MS -43431 MS -43430 MS -43429 MS -43428 MS -43427 MS -43426 MS -43425