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 2772→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
3031
1 July 2772 2 July 2772 3 July 2772 4 July 2772 5 July 2772 6 July 2772 7 July 2772 8 July 2772 9 July 2772 10 July 2772 11 July 2772 12 July 2772 13 July 2772 14 July 2772 15 July 2772 16 July 2772 17 July 2772 18 July 2772 19 July 2772 20 July 2772 21 July 2772 22 July 2772 23 July 2772 24 July 2772 25 July 2772 26 July 2772 27 July 2772 28 July 2772 29 July 2772 30 July 2772 31 July 2772 1 August 2772 9 Vulpecula 617 10 Vulpecula 617 11 Vulpecula 617 12 Vulpecula 617 13 Vulpecula 617 14 Vulpecula 617 15 Vulpecula 617 16 Vulpecula 617 17 Vulpecula 617 18 Vulpecula 617 19 Vulpecula 617 20 Vulpecula 617 21 Vulpecula 617 22 Vulpecula 617 23 Vulpecula 617 24 Vulpecula 617 25 Vulpecula 617 26 Vulpecula 617 27 Vulpecula 617 28 Vulpecula 617 1 Cygnus 617 2 Cygnus 617 3 Cygnus 617 4 Cygnus 617 5 Cygnus 617 6 Cygnus 617 7 Cygnus 617 8 Cygnus 617 9 Cygnus 617 10 Cygnus 617 11 Cygnus 617
MD 272726 MD 272727 MD 272728 MD 272729 MD 272730 MD 272731 MD 272732 MD 272733 MD 272734 MD 272735 MD 272736 MD 272737 MD 272738 MD 272739 MD 272740 MD 272741 MD 272742 MD 272743 MD 272744 MD 272745 MD 272746 MD 272747 MD 272748 MD 272749 MD 272750 MD 272751 MD 272752 MD 272753 MD 272754 MD 272755 MD 272756 MD 272757 MS 265364 MS 265365 MS 265366 MS 265367 MS 265368 MS 265369 MS 265370 MS 265371 MS 265372 MS 265373 MS 265374 MS 265375 MS 265376 MS 265377 MS 265378 MS 265379 MS 265380 MS 265381 MS 265382 MS 265383 MS 265384 MS 265385 MS 265386 MS 265387 MS 265388 MS 265389 MS 265390 MS 265391 MS 265392 MS 265393 MS 265394