SCORPIUS Scorpius, also known as Scorpio. Its name is Latin for Scorpion. It lies between Libra to the west and Sagittarius to the east. Scorpius is a large constellation in the southern hemisphere near the centre of the Milky Way.
In Greek mythology, Scorpion was sent by Artemis, the goddess of hunting and her mother, Leto, to protect all the creatures since Orion said that he would kill all the creatures on the earth. After a battle, Scorpion killed Orion. Later, Zeus sent Scorpion into the heaven.
The discovery of the Scorpius is credited to the Greco-Egyptian Astronomer Claudius Ptolemy in the 2nd Century, but the Greeks may have been known about Scorpius for 3000 years before Ptolemy and Scorpius was also known as “the creature with a burning sting” by Babylonians.
The coordinates of Scorpius in the sky is 16h53m15s, -30°44′12″in the celestial coordinate system- a system to specify celestial …show more content…
The main stars in a constellation is the stars that usually named after Greek letters in order of their brightness, which is the same as Bayer stars as this is the Bayer designation that was introduced by John Bayer in 1603. There are 1564 stars have been identified with Bayer designation so far out of approx.10000 stars that are visible at the night-time to the naked eye. The Flamsteed stars are slightly different from the Bayer stars, the Flamsteed stars are named after the numbers and the Latin genitive of the constellation it lies in so the Flamsteed stars in Scorpius will be named like “a number+Scorpii”. This method of designating was appeared in John Flamsteed’s “Historia Coelestis Britannica” by Edmond Halley and Isaac Newton in 1712. Flamsteed designation has been applied to 2554 stars in order of the increasing right ascension within each constellation. In Scorpius, there are 3 stars that distant from earth is within 10.00 pc (parsec), which is 32.62 light
In Greek mythology, Scorpion was sent by Artemis, the goddess of hunting and her mother, Leto, to protect all the creatures since Orion said that he would kill all the creatures on the earth. After a battle, Scorpion killed Orion. Later, Zeus sent Scorpion into the heaven.
The discovery of the Scorpius is credited to the Greco-Egyptian Astronomer Claudius Ptolemy in the 2nd Century, but the Greeks may have been known about Scorpius for 3000 years before Ptolemy and Scorpius was also known as “the creature with a burning sting” by Babylonians.
The coordinates of Scorpius in the sky is 16h53m15s, -30°44′12″in the celestial coordinate system- a system to specify celestial …show more content…
The main stars in a constellation is the stars that usually named after Greek letters in order of their brightness, which is the same as Bayer stars as this is the Bayer designation that was introduced by John Bayer in 1603. There are 1564 stars have been identified with Bayer designation so far out of approx.10000 stars that are visible at the night-time to the naked eye. The Flamsteed stars are slightly different from the Bayer stars, the Flamsteed stars are named after the numbers and the Latin genitive of the constellation it lies in so the Flamsteed stars in Scorpius will be named like “a number+Scorpii”. This method of designating was appeared in John Flamsteed’s “Historia Coelestis Britannica” by Edmond Halley and Isaac Newton in 1712. Flamsteed designation has been applied to 2554 stars in order of the increasing right ascension within each constellation. In Scorpius, there are 3 stars that distant from earth is within 10.00 pc (parsec), which is 32.62 light