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 4123→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031
1 July 4123 2 July 4123 3 July 4123 4 July 4123 5 July 4123 6 July 4123 7 July 4123 8 July 4123 9 July 4123 10 July 4123 11 July 4123 12 July 4123 13 July 4123 14 July 4123 15 July 4123 16 July 4123 17 July 4123 18 July 4123 19 July 4123 20 July 4123 21 July 4123 22 July 4123 23 July 4123 24 July 4123 25 July 4123 26 July 4123 27 July 4123 28 July 4123 29 July 4123 30 July 4123 31 July 4123 1 August 4123 10 Delphinus 1335 11 Delphinus 1335 12 Delphinus 1335 13 Delphinus 1335 14 Delphinus 1335 15 Delphinus 1335 16 Delphinus 1335 17 Delphinus 1335 18 Delphinus 1335 19 Delphinus 1335 20 Delphinus 1335 21 Delphinus 1335 22 Delphinus 1335 23 Delphinus 1335 24 Delphinus 1335 25 Delphinus 1335 26 Delphinus 1335 27 Delphinus 1335 28 Delphinus 1335 1 Grus 1335 2 Grus 1335 3 Grus 1335 4 Grus 1335 5 Grus 1335 6 Grus 1335 7 Grus 1335 8 Grus 1335 9 Grus 1335 10 Grus 1335 11 Grus 1335 12 Grus 1335 13 Grus 1335
MD 766168 MD 766169 MD 766170 MD 766171 MD 766172 MD 766173 MD 766174 MD 766175 MD 766176 MD 766177 MD 766178 MD 766179 MD 766180 MD 766181 MD 766182 MD 766183 MD 766184 MD 766185 MD 766186 MD 766187 MD 766188 MD 766189 MD 766190 MD 766191 MD 766192 MD 766193 MD 766194 MD 766195 MD 766196 MD 766197 MD 766198 MD 766199 MS 745469 MS 745470 MS 745471 MS 745472 MS 745473 MS 745474 MS 745475 MS 745476 MS 745477 MS 745478 MS 745479 MS 745480 MS 745481 MS 745482 MS 745483 MS 745484 MS 745485 MS 745486 MS 745487 MS 745488 MS 745489 MS 745490 MS 745491 MS 745492 MS 745493 MS 745494 MS 745495 MS 745496 MS 745497 MS 745498 MS 745499 MS 745500