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 2627→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031
1 July 2627 2 July 2627 3 July 2627 4 July 2627 5 July 2627 6 July 2627 7 July 2627 8 July 2627 9 July 2627 10 July 2627 11 July 2627 12 July 2627 13 July 2627 14 July 2627 15 July 2627 16 July 2627 17 July 2627 18 July 2627 19 July 2627 20 July 2627 21 July 2627 22 July 2627 23 July 2627 24 July 2627 25 July 2627 26 July 2627 27 July 2627 28 July 2627 29 July 2627 30 July 2627 31 July 2627 1 August 2627 15 Pavo 540 16 Pavo 540 17 Pavo 540 18 Pavo 540 19 Pavo 540 20 Pavo 540 21 Pavo 540 22 Pavo 540 23 Pavo 540 24 Pavo 540 25 Pavo 540 26 Pavo 540 27 Pavo 540 28 Pavo 540 1 Aquila 540 2 Aquila 540 3 Aquila 540 4 Aquila 540 5 Aquila 540 6 Aquila 540 7 Aquila 540 8 Aquila 540 9 Aquila 540 10 Aquila 540 11 Aquila 540 12 Aquila 540 13 Aquila 540 14 Aquila 540 15 Aquila 540 16 Aquila 540 17 Aquila 540
MD 219765 MD 219766 MD 219767 MD 219768 MD 219769 MD 219770 MD 219771 MD 219772 MD 219773 MD 219774 MD 219775 MD 219776 MD 219777 MD 219778 MD 219779 MD 219780 MD 219781 MD 219782 MD 219783 MD 219784 MD 219785 MD 219786 MD 219787 MD 219788 MD 219789 MD 219790 MD 219791 MD 219792 MD 219793 MD 219794 MD 219795 MD 219796 MS 213834 MS 213835 MS 213836 MS 213837 MS 213838 MS 213839 MS 213840 MS 213841 MS 213842 MS 213843 MS 213844 MS 213845 MS 213846 MS 213847 MS 213848 MS 213849 MS 213850 MS 213851 MS 213852 MS 213853 MS 213854 MS 213855 MS 213856 MS 213857 MS 213858 MS 213859 MS 213860 MS 213861 MS 213862 MS 213863 MS 213864