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 3193→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031
1 July 3193 2 July 3193 3 July 3193 4 July 3193 5 July 3193 6 July 3193 7 July 3193 8 July 3193 9 July 3193 10 July 3193 11 July 3193 12 July 3193 13 July 3193 14 July 3193 15 July 3193 16 July 3193 17 July 3193 18 July 3193 19 July 3193 20 July 3193 21 July 3193 22 July 3193 23 July 3193 24 July 3193 25 July 3193 26 July 3193 27 July 3193 28 July 3193 29 July 3193 30 July 3193 31 July 3193 1 August 3193 22 Centaurus 841 23 Centaurus 841 24 Centaurus 841 25 Centaurus 841 26 Centaurus 841 27 Centaurus 841 28 Centaurus 841 1 Draco 841 2 Draco 841 3 Draco 841 4 Draco 841 5 Draco 841 6 Draco 841 7 Draco 841 8 Draco 841 9 Draco 841 10 Draco 841 11 Draco 841 12 Draco 841 13 Draco 841 14 Draco 841 15 Draco 841 16 Draco 841 17 Draco 841 18 Draco 841 19 Draco 841 20 Draco 841 21 Draco 841 22 Draco 841 23 Draco 841 24 Draco 841
MD 426493 MD 426494 MD 426495 MD 426496 MD 426497 MD 426498 MD 426499 MD 426500 MD 426501 MD 426502 MD 426503 MD 426504 MD 426505 MD 426506 MD 426507 MD 426508 MD 426509 MD 426510 MD 426511 MD 426512 MD 426513 MD 426514 MD 426515 MD 426516 MD 426517 MD 426518 MD 426519 MD 426520 MD 426521 MD 426522 MD 426523 MD 426524 MS 414975 MS 414976 MS 414977 MS 414978 MS 414979 MS 414980 MS 414981 MS 414982 MS 414983 MS 414984 MS 414985 MS 414986 MS 414987 MS 414988 MS 414989 MS 414990 MS 414991 MS 414992 MS 414993 MS 414994 MS 414995 MS 414996 MS 414997 MS 414998 MS 414999 MS 415000 MS 415001 MS 415002 MS 415003 MS 415004 MS 415005