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 3397→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
3031
1 July 3397 2 July 3397 3 July 3397 4 July 3397 5 July 3397 6 July 3397 7 July 3397 8 July 3397 9 July 3397 10 July 3397 11 July 3397 12 July 3397 13 July 3397 14 July 3397 15 July 3397 16 July 3397 17 July 3397 18 July 3397 19 July 3397 20 July 3397 21 July 3397 22 July 3397 23 July 3397 24 July 3397 25 July 3397 26 July 3397 27 July 3397 28 July 3397 29 July 3397 30 July 3397 31 July 3397 1 August 3397 4 Tucana 949 5 Tucana 949 6 Tucana 949 7 Tucana 949 8 Tucana 949 9 Tucana 949 10 Tucana 949 11 Tucana 949 12 Tucana 949 13 Tucana 949 14 Tucana 949 15 Tucana 949 16 Tucana 949 17 Tucana 949 18 Tucana 949 19 Tucana 949 20 Tucana 949 21 Tucana 949 22 Tucana 949 23 Tucana 949 24 Tucana 949 25 Tucana 949 26 Tucana 949 27 Tucana 949 28 Tucana 949 1 Phoenix 950 2 Phoenix 950 3 Phoenix 950 4 Phoenix 950 5 Phoenix 950 6 Phoenix 950
MD 501003 MD 501004 MD 501005 MD 501006 MD 501007 MD 501008 MD 501009 MD 501010 MD 501011 MD 501012 MD 501013 MD 501014 MD 501015 MD 501016 MD 501017 MD 501018 MD 501019 MD 501020 MD 501021 MD 501022 MD 501023 MD 501024 MD 501025 MD 501026 MD 501027 MD 501028 MD 501029 MD 501030 MD 501031 MD 501032 MD 501033 MD 501034 MS 487471 MS 487472 MS 487473 MS 487474 MS 487475 MS 487476 MS 487477 MS 487478 MS 487479 MS 487480 MS 487481 MS 487482 MS 487483 MS 487484 MS 487485 MS 487486 MS 487487 MS 487488 MS 487489 MS 487490 MS 487491 MS 487492 MS 487493 MS 487494 MS 487495 MS 487496 MS 487497 MS 487498 MS 487499 MS 487500 MS 487501