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 2243→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
3031
1 July 2243 2 July 2243 3 July 2243 4 July 2243 5 July 2243 6 July 2243 7 July 2243 8 July 2243 9 July 2243 10 July 2243 11 July 2243 12 July 2243 13 July 2243 14 July 2243 15 July 2243 16 July 2243 17 July 2243 18 July 2243 19 July 2243 20 July 2243 21 July 2243 22 July 2243 23 July 2243 24 July 2243 25 July 2243 26 July 2243 27 July 2243 28 July 2243 29 July 2243 30 July 2243 31 July 2243 1 August 2243 1 Lupus 336 2 Lupus 336 3 Lupus 336 4 Lupus 336 5 Lupus 336 6 Lupus 336 7 Lupus 336 8 Lupus 336 9 Lupus 336 10 Lupus 336 11 Lupus 336 12 Lupus 336 13 Lupus 336 14 Lupus 336 15 Lupus 336 16 Lupus 336 17 Lupus 336 18 Lupus 336 19 Lupus 336 20 Lupus 336 21 Lupus 336 22 Lupus 336 23 Lupus 336 24 Lupus 336 25 Lupus 336 26 Lupus 336 27 Lupus 336 28 Lupus 336 1 Apus 336 2 Apus 336 3 Apus 336
MD 79512 MD 79513 MD 79514 MD 79515 MD 79516 MD 79517 MD 79518 MD 79519 MD 79520 MD 79521 MD 79522 MD 79523 MD 79524 MD 79525 MD 79526 MD 79527 MD 79528 MD 79529 MD 79530 MD 79531 MD 79532 MD 79533 MD 79534 MD 79535 MD 79536 MD 79537 MD 79538 MD 79539 MD 79540 MD 79541 MD 79542 MD 79543 MS 77372 MS 77373 MS 77374 MS 77375 MS 77376 MS 77377 MS 77378 MS 77379 MS 77380 MS 77381 MS 77382 MS 77383 MS 77384 MS 77385 MS 77386 MS 77387 MS 77388 MS 77389 MS 77390 MS 77391 MS 77392 MS 77393 MS 77394 MS 77395 MS 77396 MS 77397 MS 77398 MS 77399 MS 77400 MS 77401 MS 77402