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 4140→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
31
1 July 4140 2 July 4140 3 July 4140 4 July 4140 5 July 4140 6 July 4140 7 July 4140 8 July 4140 9 July 4140 10 July 4140 11 July 4140 12 July 4140 13 July 4140 14 July 4140 15 July 4140 16 July 4140 17 July 4140 18 July 4140 19 July 4140 20 July 4140 21 July 4140 22 July 4140 23 July 4140 24 July 4140 25 July 4140 26 July 4140 27 July 4140 28 July 4140 29 July 4140 30 July 4140 31 July 4140 1 August 4140 7 Grus 1344 8 Grus 1344 9 Grus 1344 10 Grus 1344 11 Grus 1344 12 Grus 1344 13 Grus 1344 14 Grus 1344 15 Grus 1344 16 Grus 1344 17 Grus 1344 18 Grus 1344 19 Grus 1344 20 Grus 1344 21 Grus 1344 22 Grus 1344 23 Grus 1344 24 Grus 1344 25 Grus 1344 26 Grus 1344 27 Grus 1344 28 Grus 1344 1 Pegasus 1344 2 Pegasus 1344 3 Pegasus 1344 4 Pegasus 1344 5 Pegasus 1344 6 Pegasus 1344 7 Pegasus 1344 8 Pegasus 1344 9 Pegasus 1344
MD 772378 MD 772379 MD 772380 MD 772381 MD 772382 MD 772383 MD 772384 MD 772385 MD 772386 MD 772387 MD 772388 MD 772389 MD 772390 MD 772391 MD 772392 MD 772393 MD 772394 MD 772395 MD 772396 MD 772397 MD 772398 MD 772399 MD 772400 MD 772401 MD 772402 MD 772403 MD 772404 MD 772405 MD 772406 MD 772407 MD 772408 MD 772409 MS 751512 MS 751513 MS 751514 MS 751515 MS 751516 MS 751517 MS 751518 MS 751519 MS 751520 MS 751521 MS 751522 MS 751523 MS 751524 MS 751525 MS 751526 MS 751527 MS 751528 MS 751529 MS 751530 MS 751531 MS 751532 MS 751533 MS 751534 MS 751535 MS 751536 MS 751537 MS 751538 MS 751539 MS 751540 MS 751541 MS 751542