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 4064→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031
1 July 4064 2 July 4064 3 July 4064 4 July 4064 5 July 4064 6 July 4064 7 July 4064 8 July 4064 9 July 4064 10 July 4064 11 July 4064 12 July 4064 13 July 4064 14 July 4064 15 July 4064 16 July 4064 17 July 4064 18 July 4064 19 July 4064 20 July 4064 21 July 4064 22 July 4064 23 July 4064 24 July 4064 25 July 4064 26 July 4064 27 July 4064 28 July 4064 29 July 4064 30 July 4064 31 July 4064 1 August 4064 21 Corvus 1304 22 Corvus 1304 23 Corvus 1304 24 Corvus 1304 25 Corvus 1304 26 Corvus 1304 27 Corvus 1304 1 Centaurus 1304 2 Centaurus 1304 3 Centaurus 1304 4 Centaurus 1304 5 Centaurus 1304 6 Centaurus 1304 7 Centaurus 1304 8 Centaurus 1304 9 Centaurus 1304 10 Centaurus 1304 11 Centaurus 1304 12 Centaurus 1304 13 Centaurus 1304 14 Centaurus 1304 15 Centaurus 1304 16 Centaurus 1304 17 Centaurus 1304 18 Centaurus 1304 19 Centaurus 1304 20 Centaurus 1304 21 Centaurus 1304 22 Centaurus 1304 23 Centaurus 1304 24 Centaurus 1304
MD 744620 MD 744621 MD 744622 MD 744623 MD 744624 MD 744625 MD 744626 MD 744627 MD 744628 MD 744629 MD 744630 MD 744631 MD 744632 MD 744633 MD 744634 MD 744635 MD 744636 MD 744637 MD 744638 MD 744639 MD 744640 MD 744641 MD 744642 MD 744643 MD 744644 MD 744645 MD 744646 MD 744647 MD 744648 MD 744649 MD 744650 MD 744651 MS 724504 MS 724505 MS 724506 MS 724507 MS 724508 MS 724509 MS 724510 MS 724511 MS 724512 MS 724513 MS 724514 MS 724515 MS 724516 MS 724517 MS 724518 MS 724519 MS 724520 MS 724521 MS 724522 MS 724523 MS 724524 MS 724525 MS 724526 MS 724527 MS 724528 MS 724529 MS 724530 MS 724531 MS 724532 MS 724533 MS 724534