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 3552→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031
1 July 3552 2 July 3552 3 July 3552 4 July 3552 5 July 3552 6 July 3552 7 July 3552 8 July 3552 9 July 3552 10 July 3552 11 July 3552 12 July 3552 13 July 3552 14 July 3552 15 July 3552 16 July 3552 17 July 3552 18 July 3552 19 July 3552 20 July 3552 21 July 3552 22 July 3552 23 July 3552 24 July 3552 25 July 3552 26 July 3552 27 July 3552 28 July 3552 29 July 3552 30 July 3552 31 July 3552 1 August 3552 10 Camelopardalis 1032 11 Camelopardalis 1032 12 Camelopardalis 1032 13 Camelopardalis 1032 14 Camelopardalis 1032 15 Camelopardalis 1032 16 Camelopardalis 1032 17 Camelopardalis 1032 18 Camelopardalis 1032 19 Camelopardalis 1032 20 Camelopardalis 1032 21 Camelopardalis 1032 22 Camelopardalis 1032 23 Camelopardalis 1032 24 Camelopardalis 1032 25 Camelopardalis 1032 26 Camelopardalis 1032 27 Camelopardalis 1032 28 Camelopardalis 1032 1 Chamaeleon 1032 2 Chamaeleon 1032 3 Chamaeleon 1032 4 Chamaeleon 1032 5 Chamaeleon 1032 6 Chamaeleon 1032 7 Chamaeleon 1032 8 Chamaeleon 1032 9 Chamaeleon 1032 10 Chamaeleon 1032 11 Chamaeleon 1032 12 Chamaeleon 1032
MD 557615 MD 557616 MD 557617 MD 557618 MD 557619 MD 557620 MD 557621 MD 557622 MD 557623 MD 557624 MD 557625 MD 557626 MD 557627 MD 557628 MD 557629 MD 557630 MD 557631 MD 557632 MD 557633 MD 557634 MD 557635 MD 557636 MD 557637 MD 557638 MD 557639 MD 557640 MD 557641 MD 557642 MD 557643 MD 557644 MD 557645 MD 557646 MS 542553 MS 542554 MS 542555 MS 542556 MS 542557 MS 542558 MS 542559 MS 542560 MS 542561 MS 542562 MS 542563 MS 542564 MS 542565 MS 542566 MS 542567 MS 542568 MS 542569 MS 542570 MS 542571 MS 542572 MS 542573 MS 542574 MS 542575 MS 542576 MS 542577 MS 542578 MS 542579 MS 542580 MS 542581 MS 542582 MS 542583