IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine (Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg)
Draco
The Dragon
OriginAncient
AbbreviationDra
GenitiveDraconis
Pronunciation/ˈdreɪkoʊ/ genitive /drəˈkoʊnɪs/
DRAY-co
LocationNorthern Hemisphere
Primary StarEltanin (γ Dra)
Right Ascention 17h 56m Declination +51° 29'
Martian Solar Lag δ(🜨→♂) +0.516 h (31.0 min)
Draco, “The Dragon” has been said to represent a number of scaly beasts. Most frequently he is considered to be Ladon, the dragon that guarded the tree that was the goal of Hercules’ eleventh labor. This tree produced golden apples and had been given to Hera as a wedding gift. Hercules’ labor was to bring some of the fruit back to King Eurystheus. In one version of the story Hercules uses one of his poison arrows to defeat the dragon.
www.underthesky.com
Draco as depicted by Johann Bayer in his Uranometria (1624). Source image provided by www.RareMaps.com — Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc. Via www.underthenightsky.com.
←Draco -216→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728
1 Draco -216 2 Draco -216 3 Draco -216 4 Draco -216 5 Draco -216 6 Draco -216 7 Draco -216 8 Draco -216 9 Draco -216 10 Draco -216 11 Draco -216 12 Draco -216 13 Draco -216 14 Draco -216 15 Draco -216 16 Draco -216 17 Draco -216 18 Draco -216 19 Draco -216 20 Draco -216 21 Draco -216 22 Draco -216 23 Draco -216 24 Draco -216 25 Draco -216 26 Draco -216 27 Draco -216 28 Draco -216 1 Chamaeleon -215 20 December 1204 21 December 1204 22 December 1204 23 December 1204 24 December 1204 25 December 1204 26 December 1204 27 December 1204 28 December 1204 29 December 1204 30 December 1204 31 December 1204 1 January 1205 2 January 1205 3 January 1205 4 January 1205 5 January 1205 6 January 1205 7 January 1205 8 January 1205 9 January 1205 10 January 1205 11 January 1205 12 January 1205 13 January 1205 14 January 1205 15 January 1205 16 January 1205 17 January 1205
MS -291690 MS -291691 MS -291692 MS -291693 MS -291694 MS -291695 MS -291696 MS -291697 MS -291698 MS -291699 MS -291700 MS -291701 MS -291702 MS -291703 MS -291704 MS -291705 MS -291706 MS -291707 MS -291708 MS -291709 MS -291710 MS -291711 MS -291712 MS -291713 MS -291714 MS -291715 MS -291716 MS -291717 MS -291662 MD -299802 MD -299801 MD -299800 MD -299799 MD -299798 MD -299797 MD -299796 MD -299795 MD -299794 MD -299793 MD -299792 MD -299791 MD -299790 MD -299789 MD -299788 MD -299787 MD -299786 MD -299785 MD -299784 MD -299783 MD -299782 MD -299781 MD -299780 MD -299779 MD -299778 MD -299777 MD -299776 MD -299775 MD -299774