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 2531→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031
1 July 2531 2 July 2531 3 July 2531 4 July 2531 5 July 2531 6 July 2531 7 July 2531 8 July 2531 9 July 2531 10 July 2531 11 July 2531 12 July 2531 13 July 2531 14 July 2531 15 July 2531 16 July 2531 17 July 2531 18 July 2531 19 July 2531 20 July 2531 21 July 2531 22 July 2531 23 July 2531 24 July 2531 25 July 2531 26 July 2531 27 July 2531 28 July 2531 29 July 2531 30 July 2531 31 July 2531 1 August 2531 26 Apus 489 27 Apus 489 28 Apus 489 1 Pavo 489 2 Pavo 489 3 Pavo 489 4 Pavo 489 5 Pavo 489 6 Pavo 489 7 Pavo 489 8 Pavo 489 9 Pavo 489 10 Pavo 489 11 Pavo 489 12 Pavo 489 13 Pavo 489 14 Pavo 489 15 Pavo 489 16 Pavo 489 17 Pavo 489 18 Pavo 489 19 Pavo 489 20 Pavo 489 21 Pavo 489 22 Pavo 489 23 Pavo 489 24 Pavo 489 25 Pavo 489 26 Pavo 489 27 Pavo 489 28 Pavo 489
MD 184702 MD 184703 MD 184704 MD 184705 MD 184706 MD 184707 MD 184708 MD 184709 MD 184710 MD 184711 MD 184712 MD 184713 MD 184714 MD 184715 MD 184716 MD 184717 MD 184718 MD 184719 MD 184720 MD 184721 MD 184722 MD 184723 MD 184724 MD 184725 MD 184726 MD 184727 MD 184728 MD 184729 MD 184730 MD 184731 MD 184732 MD 184733 MS 179719 MS 179720 MS 179721 MS 179722 MS 179723 MS 179724 MS 179725 MS 179726 MS 179727 MS 179728 MS 179729 MS 179730 MS 179731 MS 179732 MS 179733 MS 179734 MS 179735 MS 179736 MS 179737 MS 179738 MS 179739 MS 179740 MS 179741 MS 179742 MS 179743 MS 179744 MS 179745 MS 179746 MS 179747 MS 179748 MS 179749