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 2637→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
3031
1 July 2637 2 July 2637 3 July 2637 4 July 2637 5 July 2637 6 July 2637 7 July 2637 8 July 2637 9 July 2637 10 July 2637 11 July 2637 12 July 2637 13 July 2637 14 July 2637 15 July 2637 16 July 2637 17 July 2637 18 July 2637 19 July 2637 20 July 2637 21 July 2637 22 July 2637 23 July 2637 24 July 2637 25 July 2637 26 July 2637 27 July 2637 28 July 2637 29 July 2637 30 July 2637 31 July 2637 1 August 2637 3 Phoenix 546 4 Phoenix 546 5 Phoenix 546 6 Phoenix 546 7 Phoenix 546 8 Phoenix 546 9 Phoenix 546 10 Phoenix 546 11 Phoenix 546 12 Phoenix 546 13 Phoenix 546 14 Phoenix 546 15 Phoenix 546 16 Phoenix 546 17 Phoenix 546 18 Phoenix 546 19 Phoenix 546 20 Phoenix 546 21 Phoenix 546 22 Phoenix 546 23 Phoenix 546 24 Phoenix 546 25 Phoenix 546 26 Phoenix 546 27 Phoenix 546 28 Phoenix 546 1 Cetus 546 2 Cetus 546 3 Cetus 546 4 Cetus 546 5 Cetus 546 6 Cetus 546
MD 223418 MD 223419 MD 223420 MD 223421 MD 223422 MD 223423 MD 223424 MD 223425 MD 223426 MD 223427 MD 223428 MD 223429 MD 223430 MD 223431 MD 223432 MD 223433 MD 223434 MD 223435 MD 223436 MD 223437 MD 223438 MD 223439 MD 223440 MD 223441 MD 223442 MD 223443 MD 223444 MD 223445 MD 223446 MD 223447 MD 223448 MD 223449 MS 217388 MS 217389 MS 217390 MS 217391 MS 217392 MS 217393 MS 217394 MS 217395 MS 217396 MS 217397 MS 217398 MS 217399 MS 217400 MS 217401 MS 217402 MS 217403 MS 217404 MS 217405 MS 217406 MS 217407 MS 217408 MS 217409 MS 217410 MS 217411 MS 217412 MS 217413 MS 217414 MS 217415 MS 217416 MS 217417 MS 217418 MS 217419