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 3789→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031
1 July 3789 2 July 3789 3 July 3789 4 July 3789 5 July 3789 6 July 3789 7 July 3789 8 July 3789 9 July 3789 10 July 3789 11 July 3789 12 July 3789 13 July 3789 14 July 3789 15 July 3789 16 July 3789 17 July 3789 18 July 3789 19 July 3789 20 July 3789 21 July 3789 22 July 3789 23 July 3789 24 July 3789 25 July 3789 26 July 3789 27 July 3789 28 July 3789 29 July 3789 30 July 3789 31 July 3789 1 August 3789 19 Lynx 1158 20 Lynx 1158 21 Lynx 1158 22 Lynx 1158 23 Lynx 1158 24 Lynx 1158 25 Lynx 1158 26 Lynx 1158 27 Lynx 1158 28 Lynx 1158 1 Camelopardalis 1158 2 Camelopardalis 1158 3 Camelopardalis 1158 4 Camelopardalis 1158 5 Camelopardalis 1158 6 Camelopardalis 1158 7 Camelopardalis 1158 8 Camelopardalis 1158 9 Camelopardalis 1158 10 Camelopardalis 1158 11 Camelopardalis 1158 12 Camelopardalis 1158 13 Camelopardalis 1158 14 Camelopardalis 1158 15 Camelopardalis 1158 16 Camelopardalis 1158 17 Camelopardalis 1158 18 Camelopardalis 1158 19 Camelopardalis 1158 20 Camelopardalis 1158 21 Camelopardalis 1158 22 Camelopardalis 1158
MD 644178 MD 644179 MD 644180 MD 644181 MD 644182 MD 644183 MD 644184 MD 644185 MD 644186 MD 644187 MD 644188 MD 644189 MD 644190 MD 644191 MD 644192 MD 644193 MD 644194 MD 644195 MD 644196 MD 644197 MD 644198 MD 644199 MD 644200 MD 644201 MD 644202 MD 644203 MD 644204 MD 644205 MD 644206 MD 644207 MD 644208 MD 644209 MS 626776 MS 626777 MS 626778 MS 626779 MS 626780 MS 626781 MS 626782 MS 626783 MS 626784 MS 626785 MS 626786 MS 626787 MS 626788 MS 626789 MS 626790 MS 626791 MS 626792 MS 626793 MS 626794 MS 626795 MS 626796 MS 626797 MS 626798 MS 626799 MS 626800 MS 626801 MS 626802 MS 626803 MS 626804 MS 626805 MS 626806 MS 626807