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 532→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
2425262728
1 Draco 532 2 Draco 532 3 Draco 532 4 Draco 532 5 Draco 532 6 Draco 532 7 Draco 532 8 Draco 532 9 Draco 532 10 Draco 532 11 Draco 532 12 Draco 532 13 Draco 532 14 Draco 532 15 Draco 532 16 Draco 532 17 Draco 532 18 Draco 532 19 Draco 532 20 Draco 532 21 Draco 532 22 Draco 532 23 Draco 532 24 Draco 532 25 Draco 532 26 Draco 532 27 Draco 532 28 Draco 532 1 Lupus 532 3 March 2612 4 March 2612 5 March 2612 6 March 2612 7 March 2612 8 March 2612 9 March 2612 10 March 2612 11 March 2612 12 March 2612 13 March 2612 14 March 2612 15 March 2612 16 March 2612 17 March 2612 18 March 2612 19 March 2612 20 March 2612 21 March 2612 22 March 2612 23 March 2612 24 March 2612 25 March 2612 26 March 2612 27 March 2612 28 March 2612 29 March 2612 30 March 2612 31 March 2612
MS 208388 MS 208389 MS 208390 MS 208391 MS 208392 MS 208393 MS 208394 MS 208395 MS 208396 MS 208397 MS 208398 MS 208399 MS 208400 MS 208401 MS 208402 MS 208403 MS 208404 MS 208405 MS 208406 MS 208407 MS 208408 MS 208409 MS 208410 MS 208411 MS 208412 MS 208413 MS 208414 MS 208415 MS 208416 MD 214167 MD 214168 MD 214169 MD 214170 MD 214171 MD 214172 MD 214173 MD 214174 MD 214175 MD 214176 MD 214177 MD 214178 MD 214179 MD 214180 MD 214181 MD 214182 MD 214183 MD 214184 MD 214185 MD 214186 MD 214187 MD 214188 MD 214189 MD 214190 MD 214191 MD 214192 MD 214193 MD 214194 MD 214195