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 2570→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031
1 July 2570 2 July 2570 3 July 2570 4 July 2570 5 July 2570 6 July 2570 7 July 2570 8 July 2570 9 July 2570 10 July 2570 11 July 2570 12 July 2570 13 July 2570 14 July 2570 15 July 2570 16 July 2570 17 July 2570 18 July 2570 19 July 2570 20 July 2570 21 July 2570 22 July 2570 23 July 2570 24 July 2570 25 July 2570 26 July 2570 27 July 2570 28 July 2570 29 July 2570 30 July 2570 31 July 2570 1 August 2570 13 Chamaeleon 510 14 Chamaeleon 510 15 Chamaeleon 510 16 Chamaeleon 510 17 Chamaeleon 510 18 Chamaeleon 510 19 Chamaeleon 510 20 Chamaeleon 510 21 Chamaeleon 510 22 Chamaeleon 510 23 Chamaeleon 510 24 Chamaeleon 510 25 Chamaeleon 510 26 Chamaeleon 510 27 Chamaeleon 510 28 Chamaeleon 510 1 Hydra 510 2 Hydra 510 3 Hydra 510 4 Hydra 510 5 Hydra 510 6 Hydra 510 7 Hydra 510 8 Hydra 510 9 Hydra 510 10 Hydra 510 11 Hydra 510 12 Hydra 510 13 Hydra 510 14 Hydra 510 15 Hydra 510
MD 198947 MD 198948 MD 198949 MD 198950 MD 198951 MD 198952 MD 198953 MD 198954 MD 198955 MD 198956 MD 198957 MD 198958 MD 198959 MD 198960 MD 198961 MD 198962 MD 198963 MD 198964 MD 198965 MD 198966 MD 198967 MD 198968 MD 198969 MD 198970 MD 198971 MD 198972 MD 198973 MD 198974 MD 198975 MD 198976 MD 198977 MD 198978 MS 193579 MS 193580 MS 193581 MS 193582 MS 193583 MS 193584 MS 193585 MS 193586 MS 193587 MS 193588 MS 193589 MS 193590 MS 193591 MS 193592 MS 193593 MS 193594 MS 193595 MS 193596 MS 193597 MS 193598 MS 193599 MS 193600 MS 193601 MS 193602 MS 193603 MS 193604 MS 193605 MS 193606 MS 193607 MS 193608 MS 193609