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 3938→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
31
1 July 3938 2 July 3938 3 July 3938 4 July 3938 5 July 3938 6 July 3938 7 July 3938 8 July 3938 9 July 3938 10 July 3938 11 July 3938 12 July 3938 13 July 3938 14 July 3938 15 July 3938 16 July 3938 17 July 3938 18 July 3938 19 July 3938 20 July 3938 21 July 3938 22 July 3938 23 July 3938 24 July 3938 25 July 3938 26 July 3938 27 July 3938 28 July 3938 29 July 3938 30 July 3938 31 July 3938 1 August 3938 12 Centaurus 1237 13 Centaurus 1237 14 Centaurus 1237 15 Centaurus 1237 16 Centaurus 1237 17 Centaurus 1237 18 Centaurus 1237 19 Centaurus 1237 20 Centaurus 1237 21 Centaurus 1237 22 Centaurus 1237 23 Centaurus 1237 24 Centaurus 1237 25 Centaurus 1237 26 Centaurus 1237 27 Centaurus 1237 28 Centaurus 1237 1 Draco 1237 2 Draco 1237 3 Draco 1237 4 Draco 1237 5 Draco 1237 6 Draco 1237 7 Draco 1237 8 Draco 1237 9 Draco 1237 10 Draco 1237 11 Draco 1237 12 Draco 1237 13 Draco 1237 14 Draco 1237
MD 698598 MD 698599 MD 698600 MD 698601 MD 698602 MD 698603 MD 698604 MD 698605 MD 698606 MD 698607 MD 698608 MD 698609 MD 698610 MD 698611 MD 698612 MD 698613 MD 698614 MD 698615 MD 698616 MD 698617 MD 698618 MD 698619 MD 698620 MD 698621 MD 698622 MD 698623 MD 698624 MD 698625 MD 698626 MD 698627 MD 698628 MD 698629 MS 679726 MS 679727 MS 679728 MS 679729 MS 679730 MS 679731 MS 679732 MS 679733 MS 679734 MS 679735 MS 679736 MS 679737 MS 679738 MS 679739 MS 679740 MS 679741 MS 679742 MS 679743 MS 679744 MS 679745 MS 679746 MS 679747 MS 679748 MS 679749 MS 679750 MS 679751 MS 679752 MS 679753 MS 679754 MS 679755 MS 679756