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 3224→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031
1 July 3224 2 July 3224 3 July 3224 4 July 3224 5 July 3224 6 July 3224 7 July 3224 8 July 3224 9 July 3224 10 July 3224 11 July 3224 12 July 3224 13 July 3224 14 July 3224 15 July 3224 16 July 3224 17 July 3224 18 July 3224 19 July 3224 20 July 3224 21 July 3224 22 July 3224 23 July 3224 24 July 3224 25 July 3224 26 July 3224 27 July 3224 28 July 3224 29 July 3224 30 July 3224 31 July 3224 1 August 3224 7 Phoenix 858 8 Phoenix 858 9 Phoenix 858 10 Phoenix 858 11 Phoenix 858 12 Phoenix 858 13 Phoenix 858 14 Phoenix 858 15 Phoenix 858 16 Phoenix 858 17 Phoenix 858 18 Phoenix 858 19 Phoenix 858 20 Phoenix 858 21 Phoenix 858 22 Phoenix 858 23 Phoenix 858 24 Phoenix 858 25 Phoenix 858 26 Phoenix 858 27 Phoenix 858 28 Phoenix 858 1 Cetus 858 2 Cetus 858 3 Cetus 858 4 Cetus 858 5 Cetus 858 6 Cetus 858 7 Cetus 858 8 Cetus 858 9 Cetus 858
MD 437816 MD 437817 MD 437818 MD 437819 MD 437820 MD 437821 MD 437822 MD 437823 MD 437824 MD 437825 MD 437826 MD 437827 MD 437828 MD 437829 MD 437830 MD 437831 MD 437832 MD 437833 MD 437834 MD 437835 MD 437836 MD 437837 MD 437838 MD 437839 MD 437840 MD 437841 MD 437842 MD 437843 MD 437844 MD 437845 MD 437846 MD 437847 MS 425992 MS 425993 MS 425994 MS 425995 MS 425996 MS 425997 MS 425998 MS 425999 MS 426000 MS 426001 MS 426002 MS 426003 MS 426004 MS 426005 MS 426006 MS 426007 MS 426008 MS 426009 MS 426010 MS 426011 MS 426012 MS 426013 MS 426014 MS 426015 MS 426016 MS 426017 MS 426018 MS 426019 MS 426020 MS 426021 MS 426022