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 3721→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031
1 July 3721 2 July 3721 3 July 3721 4 July 3721 5 July 3721 6 July 3721 7 July 3721 8 July 3721 9 July 3721 10 July 3721 11 July 3721 12 July 3721 13 July 3721 14 July 3721 15 July 3721 16 July 3721 17 July 3721 18 July 3721 19 July 3721 20 July 3721 21 July 3721 22 July 3721 23 July 3721 24 July 3721 25 July 3721 26 July 3721 27 July 3721 28 July 3721 29 July 3721 30 July 3721 31 July 3721 1 August 3721 6 Columba 1122 7 Columba 1122 8 Columba 1122 9 Columba 1122 10 Columba 1122 11 Columba 1122 12 Columba 1122 13 Columba 1122 14 Columba 1122 15 Columba 1122 16 Columba 1122 17 Columba 1122 18 Columba 1122 19 Columba 1122 20 Columba 1122 21 Columba 1122 22 Columba 1122 23 Columba 1122 24 Columba 1122 25 Columba 1122 26 Columba 1122 27 Columba 1122 28 Columba 1122 1 Monoceros 1122 2 Monoceros 1122 3 Monoceros 1122 4 Monoceros 1122 5 Monoceros 1122 6 Monoceros 1122 7 Monoceros 1122 8 Monoceros 1122
MD 619341 MD 619342 MD 619343 MD 619344 MD 619345 MD 619346 MD 619347 MD 619348 MD 619349 MD 619350 MD 619351 MD 619352 MD 619353 MD 619354 MD 619355 MD 619356 MD 619357 MD 619358 MD 619359 MD 619360 MD 619361 MD 619362 MD 619363 MD 619364 MD 619365 MD 619366 MD 619367 MD 619368 MD 619369 MD 619370 MD 619371 MD 619372 MS 602611 MS 602612 MS 602613 MS 602614 MS 602615 MS 602616 MS 602617 MS 602618 MS 602619 MS 602620 MS 602621 MS 602622 MS 602623 MS 602624 MS 602625 MS 602626 MS 602627 MS 602628 MS 602629 MS 602630 MS 602631 MS 602632 MS 602633 MS 602634 MS 602635 MS 602636 MS 602637 MS 602638 MS 602639 MS 602640 MS 602641