Leo can be seen from pretty much anywhere on Earth except for Antarctica. This method only really works in the northern hemisphere because the Big Dipper hides in most of the southern hemisphere. If you are in the U. The trick to finding a constellation is usually to find its brightest star as it will be easier to do. In this case, we are going to locate Alpha Leonis , more commonly known as Regulus.
In case you need additional help, the big dipper is a very famous asterism in the sky that looks, well, like a dipper. In fact, the big dipper is part of the Ursa Major big bear constellation. It is not hard to find as long as the sky is clear but if you need some extra help, try finding the North Star Polaris , a. That is in the little dipper which is neighbor to the big dipper so you just need to look in the vicinity. In Greek mythology, the Nemean Lion took women as prisoners to lure warriors into his den.
The Nemean Lion was defeated by the great hero Hercules, and he took its skin and wore it in further battles. Leo's constellation spreads out for square degrees and is located in the second quadrant of the northern hemisphere. It is most visible around the spring equinox, and it lies between the Cancer constellation to the west and Virgo to the east.
The constellation of Leo has the shape of a lion, and if you want to find it, you must first need to look for the Big Dipper in the northeast sky.
Here you can see the two pointer stars from the Big Dipper. If you draw a line between these stars, it points towards the North Star, and the constellation of Leo. The best season to see Leo Constellation is in the spring equinox. You can identify it in the Northern Hemisphere in May or April. This is when the constellation is the most prominent in the night sky. Leo Constellation can be seen from both hemispheres from January to June.
It has many shiny stars , which makes it one of the most recognizable constellations in the night sky. It is also designated as Alpha Leonis. Regulus is a blue-white subgiant star. The Leo Ring, a cloud of hydrogen and helium gas, orbits of two dwarf galaxies. In Greek mythology, Leo is the Nemean Lion, which terrorized the citizens and had a hide that could not punctured by iron, bronze or stone. Killing the lion was one of Hercules' 12 labors, which he had to perform as penance for killing his family.
Having broken all of his weapons fighting the man-eating lion, Hercules finally strangled it to death and placed it in the heavens as one of his conquests.
Astrology is not a science , but Leo is one of the 13 constellations of the Zodiac. Leo is the fifth sign of the Zodiac and represents those born July 22 to August It is considered a masculine, extroverted sign. Recent exoplanet discoveries in the constellation Leo show a cornucopia of strange words, as well as at least one planet that is potentially habitable.
It is visible from November 13th to 21st, and peaks on November 17th when 20 or more meteors can be seen per hour. Once very 33 years, however, a periodic meteor storm takes place in which thousands can be seen every hour, with the next expected to occur in In a famous piece of art work depicting the shower, you can see that, in a time when there were no indoor and outdoor lights, the scene is lit almost as brightly as daytime.
Leo has 15 stars with 18 known planets between them, although none of the stars in Leo have planets in their habitable zones. Although it is not entirely clear how the constellation Leo became known to the ancient Egyptians, one enchanting piece of star lore goes as follows.
The ancient Egyptians worshiped Leo because they knew the Sun entered the constellation during the Flooding of the Nile, which brought significant amounts of water and fertile soil onto the land. Food security in Egypt depended on this annual natural cycle, a circumstance that also coincided with the arrival of desert lions at the river. Although the lions moved toward the river to avoid the heat and lack of water in the desert at that time, a connection was made by the Egyptians, who honored the lion with festivals, and even today many statues of lions can be found along the course of the Nile River, proof of the reverence with which the ancient Egyptians regarded the desert lions.
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