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 2395→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
3031
1 July 2395 2 July 2395 3 July 2395 4 July 2395 5 July 2395 6 July 2395 7 July 2395 8 July 2395 9 July 2395 10 July 2395 11 July 2395 12 July 2395 13 July 2395 14 July 2395 15 July 2395 16 July 2395 17 July 2395 18 July 2395 19 July 2395 20 July 2395 21 July 2395 22 July 2395 23 July 2395 24 July 2395 25 July 2395 26 July 2395 27 July 2395 28 July 2395 29 July 2395 30 July 2395 31 July 2395 1 August 2395 1 Chamaeleon 417 2 Chamaeleon 417 3 Chamaeleon 417 4 Chamaeleon 417 5 Chamaeleon 417 6 Chamaeleon 417 7 Chamaeleon 417 8 Chamaeleon 417 9 Chamaeleon 417 10 Chamaeleon 417 11 Chamaeleon 417 12 Chamaeleon 417 13 Chamaeleon 417 14 Chamaeleon 417 15 Chamaeleon 417 16 Chamaeleon 417 17 Chamaeleon 417 18 Chamaeleon 417 19 Chamaeleon 417 20 Chamaeleon 417 21 Chamaeleon 417 22 Chamaeleon 417 23 Chamaeleon 417 24 Chamaeleon 417 25 Chamaeleon 417 26 Chamaeleon 417 27 Chamaeleon 417 28 Chamaeleon 417 1 Hydra 417 2 Hydra 417 3 Hydra 417
MD 135029 MD 135030 MD 135031 MD 135032 MD 135033 MD 135034 MD 135035 MD 135036 MD 135037 MD 135038 MD 135039 MD 135040 MD 135041 MD 135042 MD 135043 MD 135044 MD 135045 MD 135046 MD 135047 MD 135048 MD 135049 MD 135050 MD 135051 MD 135052 MD 135053 MD 135054 MD 135055 MD 135056 MD 135057 MD 135058 MD 135059 MD 135060 MS 131388 MS 131389 MS 131390 MS 131391 MS 131392 MS 131393 MS 131394 MS 131395 MS 131396 MS 131397 MS 131398 MS 131399 MS 131400 MS 131401 MS 131402 MS 131403 MS 131404 MS 131405 MS 131406 MS 131407 MS 131408 MS 131409 MS 131410 MS 131411 MS 131412 MS 131413 MS 131414 MS 131415 MS 131416 MS 131417 MS 131418