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 3202→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031
1 July 3202 2 July 3202 3 July 3202 4 July 3202 5 July 3202 6 July 3202 7 July 3202 8 July 3202 9 July 3202 10 July 3202 11 July 3202 12 July 3202 13 July 3202 14 July 3202 15 July 3202 16 July 3202 17 July 3202 18 July 3202 19 July 3202 20 July 3202 21 July 3202 22 July 3202 23 July 3202 24 July 3202 25 July 3202 26 July 3202 27 July 3202 28 July 3202 29 July 3202 30 July 3202 31 July 3202 1 August 3202 16 Lynx 846 17 Lynx 846 18 Lynx 846 19 Lynx 846 20 Lynx 846 21 Lynx 846 22 Lynx 846 23 Lynx 846 24 Lynx 846 25 Lynx 846 26 Lynx 846 27 Lynx 846 28 Lynx 846 1 Camelopardalis 846 2 Camelopardalis 846 3 Camelopardalis 846 4 Camelopardalis 846 5 Camelopardalis 846 6 Camelopardalis 846 7 Camelopardalis 846 8 Camelopardalis 846 9 Camelopardalis 846 10 Camelopardalis 846 11 Camelopardalis 846 12 Camelopardalis 846 13 Camelopardalis 846 14 Camelopardalis 846 15 Camelopardalis 846 16 Camelopardalis 846 17 Camelopardalis 846 18 Camelopardalis 846
MD 429780 MD 429781 MD 429782 MD 429783 MD 429784 MD 429785 MD 429786 MD 429787 MD 429788 MD 429789 MD 429790 MD 429791 MD 429792 MD 429793 MD 429794 MD 429795 MD 429796 MD 429797 MD 429798 MD 429799 MD 429800 MD 429801 MD 429802 MD 429803 MD 429804 MD 429805 MD 429806 MD 429807 MD 429808 MD 429809 MD 429810 MD 429811 MS 418173 MS 418174 MS 418175 MS 418176 MS 418177 MS 418178 MS 418179 MS 418180 MS 418181 MS 418182 MS 418183 MS 418184 MS 418185 MS 418186 MS 418187 MS 418188 MS 418189 MS 418190 MS 418191 MS 418192 MS 418193 MS 418194 MS 418195 MS 418196 MS 418197 MS 418198 MS 418199 MS 418200 MS 418201 MS 418202 MS 418203