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 3040→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031
1 July 3040 2 July 3040 3 July 3040 4 July 3040 5 July 3040 6 July 3040 7 July 3040 8 July 3040 9 July 3040 10 July 3040 11 July 3040 12 July 3040 13 July 3040 14 July 3040 15 July 3040 16 July 3040 17 July 3040 18 July 3040 19 July 3040 20 July 3040 21 July 3040 22 July 3040 23 July 3040 24 July 3040 25 July 3040 26 July 3040 27 July 3040 28 July 3040 29 July 3040 30 July 3040 31 July 3040 1 August 3040 28 Columba 760 1 Monoceros 760 2 Monoceros 760 3 Monoceros 760 4 Monoceros 760 5 Monoceros 760 6 Monoceros 760 7 Monoceros 760 8 Monoceros 760 9 Monoceros 760 10 Monoceros 760 11 Monoceros 760 12 Monoceros 760 13 Monoceros 760 14 Monoceros 760 15 Monoceros 760 16 Monoceros 760 17 Monoceros 760 18 Monoceros 760 19 Monoceros 760 20 Monoceros 760 21 Monoceros 760 22 Monoceros 760 23 Monoceros 760 24 Monoceros 760 25 Monoceros 760 26 Monoceros 760 27 Monoceros 760 1 Volans 760 2 Volans 760 3 Volans 760
MD 370611 MD 370612 MD 370613 MD 370614 MD 370615 MD 370616 MD 370617 MD 370618 MD 370619 MD 370620 MD 370621 MD 370622 MD 370623 MD 370624 MD 370625 MD 370626 MD 370627 MD 370628 MD 370629 MD 370630 MD 370631 MD 370632 MD 370633 MD 370634 MD 370635 MD 370636 MD 370637 MD 370638 MD 370639 MD 370640 MD 370641 MD 370642 MS 360603 MS 360604 MS 360605 MS 360606 MS 360607 MS 360608 MS 360609 MS 360610 MS 360611 MS 360612 MS 360613 MS 360614 MS 360615 MS 360616 MS 360617 MS 360618 MS 360619 MS 360620 MS 360621 MS 360622 MS 360623 MS 360624 MS 360625 MS 360626 MS 360627 MS 360628 MS 360629 MS 360630 MS 360631 MS 360632 MS 360633