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 3084→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031
1 July 3084 2 July 3084 3 July 3084 4 July 3084 5 July 3084 6 July 3084 7 July 3084 8 July 3084 9 July 3084 10 July 3084 11 July 3084 12 July 3084 13 July 3084 14 July 3084 15 July 3084 16 July 3084 17 July 3084 18 July 3084 19 July 3084 20 July 3084 21 July 3084 22 July 3084 23 July 3084 24 July 3084 25 July 3084 26 July 3084 27 July 3084 28 July 3084 29 July 3084 30 July 3084 31 July 3084 1 August 3084 9 Lupus 783 10 Lupus 783 11 Lupus 783 12 Lupus 783 13 Lupus 783 14 Lupus 783 15 Lupus 783 16 Lupus 783 17 Lupus 783 18 Lupus 783 19 Lupus 783 20 Lupus 783 21 Lupus 783 22 Lupus 783 23 Lupus 783 24 Lupus 783 25 Lupus 783 26 Lupus 783 27 Lupus 783 28 Lupus 783 1 Apus 783 2 Apus 783 3 Apus 783 4 Apus 783 5 Apus 783 6 Apus 783 7 Apus 783 8 Apus 783 9 Apus 783 10 Apus 783 11 Apus 783
MD 386682 MD 386683 MD 386684 MD 386685 MD 386686 MD 386687 MD 386688 MD 386689 MD 386690 MD 386691 MD 386692 MD 386693 MD 386694 MD 386695 MD 386696 MD 386697 MD 386698 MD 386699 MD 386700 MD 386701 MD 386702 MD 386703 MD 386704 MD 386705 MD 386706 MD 386707 MD 386708 MD 386709 MD 386710 MD 386711 MD 386712 MD 386713 MS 376240 MS 376241 MS 376242 MS 376243 MS 376244 MS 376245 MS 376246 MS 376247 MS 376248 MS 376249 MS 376250 MS 376251 MS 376252 MS 376253 MS 376254 MS 376255 MS 376256 MS 376257 MS 376258 MS 376259 MS 376260 MS 376261 MS 376262 MS 376263 MS 376264 MS 376265 MS 376266 MS 376267 MS 376268 MS 376269 MS 376270