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 4139→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031
1 July 4139 2 July 4139 3 July 4139 4 July 4139 5 July 4139 6 July 4139 7 July 4139 8 July 4139 9 July 4139 10 July 4139 11 July 4139 12 July 4139 13 July 4139 14 July 4139 15 July 4139 16 July 4139 17 July 4139 18 July 4139 19 July 4139 20 July 4139 21 July 4139 22 July 4139 23 July 4139 24 July 4139 25 July 4139 26 July 4139 27 July 4139 28 July 4139 29 July 4139 30 July 4139 31 July 4139 1 August 4139 13 Camelopardalis 1344 14 Camelopardalis 1344 15 Camelopardalis 1344 16 Camelopardalis 1344 17 Camelopardalis 1344 18 Camelopardalis 1344 19 Camelopardalis 1344 20 Camelopardalis 1344 21 Camelopardalis 1344 22 Camelopardalis 1344 23 Camelopardalis 1344 24 Camelopardalis 1344 25 Camelopardalis 1344 26 Camelopardalis 1344 27 Camelopardalis 1344 28 Camelopardalis 1344 1 Chamaeleon 1344 2 Chamaeleon 1344 3 Chamaeleon 1344 4 Chamaeleon 1344 5 Chamaeleon 1344 6 Chamaeleon 1344 7 Chamaeleon 1344 8 Chamaeleon 1344 9 Chamaeleon 1344 10 Chamaeleon 1344 11 Chamaeleon 1344 12 Chamaeleon 1344 13 Chamaeleon 1344 14 Chamaeleon 1344 15 Chamaeleon 1344
MD 772012 MD 772013 MD 772014 MD 772015 MD 772016 MD 772017 MD 772018 MD 772019 MD 772020 MD 772021 MD 772022 MD 772023 MD 772024 MD 772025 MD 772026 MD 772027 MD 772028 MD 772029 MD 772030 MD 772031 MD 772032 MD 772033 MD 772034 MD 772035 MD 772036 MD 772037 MD 772038 MD 772039 MD 772040 MD 772041 MD 772042 MD 772043 MS 751156 MS 751157 MS 751158 MS 751159 MS 751160 MS 751161 MS 751162 MS 751163 MS 751164 MS 751165 MS 751166 MS 751167 MS 751168 MS 751169 MS 751170 MS 751171 MS 751172 MS 751173 MS 751174 MS 751175 MS 751176 MS 751177 MS 751178 MS 751179 MS 751180 MS 751181 MS 751182 MS 751183 MS 751184 MS 751185 MS 751186