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Is probably the most memorable sign in our Zodiac circle, being half man and half horse.It is interesting that Sagittarius looks so much like the Centaurs, but Sagittarius is the only one among the modern Zodiac signs, yet these two creatures are nothing like each other.

If I understand the ancient correct then these two creatures are opposites of each other. Some say that Sagittarius is a representation of Chiron the wise healer, he was also a Centaurs but with a different nature. The centaurs were of a rather harsh nature, drinking, and they loved to fight. I personally don’t see the character Chiron in Sagittarius.Let us see what the Picatrix (MSS) says about the 3 faces of Sagittarius. [The expression of 3 Faces, could also be called the 3 lots. Inside each zodiac sign is a division of three, which makes up the 3 faces inside Sagittarius (or the other signs).]:“And there ascends in the first face of Sagittarius three bodies of men of which one is yellow, another white but the third red. And this is a face of heat, weight, of fructifying in fields and on the lands, of sustaining and dividing. And this is its form”“And there ascends in the second face of Sagittarius a man who leads cows, and holding (or having) a Monkey and a bear before him. And this is a face of fear, lamentation, mourning, misery, and inquietude.

And this is its form.”According to Ptolemy;In the first face there ascends the neck of the small bear, the end of the tail of the Dragon, and the posterior of the Walking on His Knees, and his nape and his head, and the end of the Scorpion, and the Knotted ones in the tail [of the Scorpion], and the body of Censer.It could be that Sagittarius is symbolized as a Centaurs creature, because of the many natures that are combined in one. Babylonia;Even the ancient Babylonians had the symbol of Sagittarius, and even here we find it place close to a Scorpion. Some authors argue that the Babylonians are the people that invented the modern day Zodiac circle. I can agree to some point on this suspicion, but I fell that they just gave name to areas which already were in used, just called by other names. Maybe the Babylonians just simplified some thoughts? But in simplifying these thoughts a lot is lost.

Sagittarius from Babylonian time periodaround 2300 B.C.The ancient Sumerian astrologer/astronomer was like the ancient Egyptian and believed in the spirits of life (their thoughts did not only divide situations up into Good and Evil). They would say all things that move, possessed the term of ‘self-power’ and herby was ‘life/living/alive’. The oceans and rivers are the most visible ‘Living beings’, in that they are ‘self-powered’ – in a constant motion/and movement.Another book dating from 1886 which goes under the name of ‘Chaldea’, I find this book very useful when it comes to this part;CHALDEA:This was the society that took over the Babylonian people, these people were called ‘the Kaldu people’ and they were of Semitic descent. The 6th century BC (600 BC) is in history known as the Chaldean Dynasty.The ancient religion of the Semitic races/tribes and most other people (just look at the Dogon tribe in Africa), central around the worship of the heavenly bodies, that was called ‘Sabeism’ for the Semitic tribes. The Chaledeo-Babylonian was many cultures mixed together, but they were influenced by someone coming from the outside…When the ancient studied the stars movement, and combinations, they saw that they also followed a ‘Law’. A planet never rotated in a square path, but rather followed the circler path. So even the high and mighty planets, and stars were bound by some sort of ‘Law’. This made the ancient believe in a Universal Lord, that is much greater than Anything, and much much greater than any earthly subject – the Lord of ALL. The ancient universal Lord was even among the stars – probably meaning the dark blue abyss, which an astronaut travels in/or among to reach a Planet/star. They believed that when we died (a non-existing word in those days), that when we left our earthly bodies, then we would travel in boats in this ocean blue abyss – today referred to as space. This is what happens after the judgment and the transformation have happened (or so ancient text say).We are greeted by the Ferry Man

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Sagittarius
Jove


Kaus : قوس


ركبة

النصل

The stars δ Sgr (Kaus Media), ε Sgr (Kaus Australis), ζ Sgr (Ascella), and φ Sgr form the body of the pot; λ Sgr (Kaus Borealis) is the point of the lid; γ2 Sgr (Alnasl) is the tip of the spout; and σ Sgr (Nunki) and τ Sgr (Εκατηβολος) the handle.

Chiron : Ceirwn

Sagitta

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Double stars:

Nu1 Sagittarii is a fixed binary with faint companion: 5.0, 10.8; PA 97º and separation 2.5".
Note that nu1 and nu2 are not gravitationally bound, although they form an optical binary of some historical importance: these two stars caused Ptolemy to write about "a nebulous double star" long before Hershel coined the term "binary".
54 Sgr also catalogued as h 599 is a multiple system:
AB: 5.4, 12; PA 274º, separation 38"; AC: 8.9; PA 42º, 45.6". The primary has a reddish tinge to it.

Rho1 and rho2 form a nice triangle with h 2866:
AB: 8.0, 8.3; 53º, 23.4" Variable stars:
Sagittarius has a variety of variables, some of which are suitable for small scopes, primarily cepheids but also one Mira-type long range variable.
Upsilon Sgr is an eclipsing binary (beta Lyrae type: EB) with an unusually long period of 137.9 days. Its range will be undetectable to most observers, from 4.53 to 4.61, but what makes the system interesting is that it seems to be one of the most luminous systems known (with an estimated absolute magnitude of around -7.5).
The brightest cepheids are: W Sgr (4.3-5.1 every 7.6 days) and X Sgr (4.2-4.9 every 7 days).
R Sagittarii is a long-period variable fluctuating from 6.7 to 12.8 every 269.84 days. In 2000 the maximum should occur in the second week of July.
The star is found two degrees NE of pi Sagittarii, or just past the midpoint of a line between pi and rho Sgr.

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Sagittarius has a muddled history. In ancient times the asterism of three bright stars in a curved line was seen as a bow to some, leading both Greek and Roman writers to confuse the constellation with Centaurus.
As stated in "Centaurus", this constellation (in part) represents Cheiron, the king of the Centaurs. Sagittarius is also half-man, half-beast, said by some to have been placed in the heavens to guide the Argonauts in their travels.
Others claim that the constellation was invented by the Sumerians, that Nergal (as the supreme god of war) is found on two cuneiform inscriptions. Yet this interpretation is open to debate, for Nergal is not necessarily linked with a bow.
In the Gilgamech epic, Nergal is one of the "seven gods" to whom one sacrificed sheep and oxen. His name, in Sumerian, means "Lord of the Great Abode", that is, of the Underworld. Yet there are few extant stories that provide much of a picture of this god. Hammurabi, the great lawgiver (18 century BC) called him "the fighter without a rival who brought him victory" over those who would resist his laws. He was also seen as the god of plagues, and of destruction.
However to consider Nergal as the prototype of The Archer seems to be stretching the evidence. For whatever reason, when the select group of twelve constellations was codified sometime in the third millennium BC, The Archer was one of them
It was the Romans who named the constellation Sagittarius ("sagitta" is Latin for `arrow'), although several stars carry Arabic names which identify just which portion of the constellation they represent:
Alpha Sagittarii is named "Rukbat": (Rukbat al Rami=Archer's knee), and beta Sgr is "Arkab" (Tendon).

The bow is outlined by three stars:
Lambda Sgr: "Kaus Borealis" = the northern (part of the) bow
Delta Sgr: "Kaus Meridionalis" = the middle (part of the) bow
Epsilon Sgr: "Kaus Australis" = the southern (part of the) bow
The arrow tip is gamma Sgr ("Al Nasl" = the point)
While the asterism of the bow is quite apparent, it takes some imagination to see the half-man, half-beast pulling back on the string. Perhaps it helps to know that zeta Sagittarii is named "Ascella" (the armpit of the archer), while nu Sgr is "Ain al Rami": The Eye of the Archer.
The Bayer stars are generally third and fourth magnitude. The brightest star is epsilon Sgr, while alpha Sgr is nearly fourth magnitude. In fact, there are fourteen stars brighter than alpha). The constellation has a number of fine binaries, and several superb deep sky objects.

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The Archer

A Chiron, half-man half-horse, sent to kill the scorpion (Scorpio).
In Babylonian mythology, this represents the demon Pabilsaq.
"The stars at the point of the arrow in Sagittarius have influence similar to that of Mars and the Moon; those on the bow and at the grasp of the hand act like Jupiter and Mars; those in the waist and in the back resemble Jupiter and also Mercury moderately; those in the feet like Jupiter and Saturn."- - Ptolemy

The sun passes through this constellation from late December to late January, so it is best viewed in the nights of summer time.It was the Romans who named the constellation Sagittarius ("sagitta" is Latin for "arrow"), although several stars carry Arabic names that identify just which portion of the constellation they represent: Alpha Sagittarii is named Rukbat: (Rukbat al Rami = Archer's knee), and beta Sgr is Arkab (Tendon).The bow is outlined by three stars: Lambda Sgr: Kaus Borealis = the northern (part of the) bow. Delta Sgr: Kaus Meridionalis = the middle (part of the) bow. Epsilon Sgr: Kaus Australis = the southern (part of the) bow. The arrow tip is gamma Sgr (Al Nasl = the point).Sagittarius was a hunter, traceable to the Mesopotamian archer-god Nergal who was associated with the wrathful god Irra of war and fire (the Greek Ares and the Roman Mars).In Greece the Archer, represents a centaur - half-man, half-horse, descended from Ixion, the man who dared to lust after Hera, wife of Zeus. Realising Ixion's intentions, Zeus sent a cloud, disguised as Hera, to trick him. The offspring of this union was Kentauros, who was shunned by gods and mankind alike. He moved to Thessaly and bred with the mares there, and so centaurs were born. Some, like Chiron, the wise and kindly centaur who befriended Hercules and who is represented by Centaurus, were considerate and friendly to men, but many were aggressive. Sagittarius is one of the latter, a fierce hunter with his bow and arrow always aimed at Scorpius.



Sagittarius is associated with Crotus, the son of the god Pan and the nymph Eupheme. Eupheme raised her son with the nine Muses, the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne. Crotus was both skilled at the hunt and sensitive to the arts. According to one story, Crotus begged Zeus to transport him into the stars upon his death. Another story has Crotus being memorialized because of the entreaties Muses who begged Zeus to honor the archer. He is also refered to as a Satyr, probably derived from the characteristics of the original Centaur, Hea-bani. They associated Crotus, the Satyr, part man, part goat, with a long, horse like tail, and it was often illustrated standing on two legs.Although the true meaning of Sagittarius is Archer, this constellation is usually depicted as a combination of a horse and a man, the rear part being the horse and the front part the man. The man is always armed with a bow and an arrow. The Roman mythologers identified Sagittarius in error with the gentle and wise centaur Chiron, which has led to frequent confusion with the southern constellation Centaurus.

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The Archer (half-man and half-horse).
It was the Romans who named the constellation Sagittarius ("sagitta" is Latin for "arrow"), although several stars carry Arabic names which identify just which portion of the constellation they represent:
Alpha Sagittarii is named Rukbat: (Rukbat al Rami = Archer's knee), and beta Sgr is Arkab (Tendon).

The bow is outlined by three stars: Lambda Sgr: Kaus Borealis = the northern (part of the) bow:Delta Sgr: Kaus Meridionalis = the middle (part of the) bow Epsilon Sgr: Kaus Australis = the southern (part of the) bow.

The arrow tip is gamma Sgr (Al Nasl = the point)
This creature was a famed centaur in Greek mythology. They were rude, untrustworthy, cheating, violent, deceptive and they drank too much. But one centaur named Chiron was different. Chiron was educated by the Sun-god Apollo and Diana, Goddess of the Moon and Wild Animals. Chiron was as kind, gentle, and wise as the other centaurs were mean, fierce, and unthinking. Chiron's many skills and wisdom became so widely known that children of many a famous king were sent to him to be taught all manner of skills. Among his pupils were the mighty Hercules and Aesculapius, who became so skilled at medicine. As the story goes, Hercules had traveled far one day and was very thirsty so he asked a friend to open a jar of the excellent wine kept in his house but belonging jointly to all the centaurs. His friend did, and when the aroma of this fine wine flowed out over the countryside the other centaurs furiously galloped up to the house and demanded to know how he had dared open the wine without first consulting them. The centaurs began to attack him and Hercules. This was a mistake, for Hercules soon settled matters by killing many of them and driving the rest from the countryside, telling them never to return. Chiron was nearby observing the event, although he has not taken part. Although Hercules knew Chiron, and deeply respected him, he could not recognize his friend from a great distance and accidentally shot him with one of his poisoned arrows. Seeing these events and knowing of his son Hercules' sadness, Zeus gave the good centaur a resting place among the stars as the constellation Sagittarius, the Archer. According to another myth, Sagittarius is poised and ready to shooting an arrow through the heart-star of Scorpio if he tried to do any harm to anyone. Others claim that the constellation was invented by the Sumerians, that Nergal (as the supreme god of war) is found on two cuneiform inscriptions. In the Gilgamech epic, Nergal is one of the "seven gods" to whom one sacrificed sheep and oxen. His name, in Sumerian, means "Lord of the Great Abode", that is, of the Underworld. Yet there are few stories that provide much of a picture of this god. Hammurabi, the great lawgiver (18 century BC) called him "the fighter without a rival who brought him victory" over those who would resist his laws. He was also seen as the god of plagues, and of destruction. However to consider Nergal as the prototype of The Archer seems to be stretching the evidence. For whatever reason, when the select group of twelve constellations was codified sometime in the third millennium BC, The Archer was one of them.

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Nunki

Sigma Sagittarii

According to Allen the name "Nunki" is "Euphratean" in origin. I think that this means in fact Babylonian. Nunki is the "Star of the Proclamation of the Sea."
The The Bright Star Catalog also lists Sadira as a name for this star.
Description of the Star
Nunki is a hot, blue B2.5V main sequence star having a luminosity of about 600 times that of the sun.
The spectral type implies an effective temperature of 22,000 K, a diameter about 5.6 times that of the sun, and a mass of 14 solar masses.

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Kaus australis
Epsilon Sagittarii
The name means "The Southern Bow." The name is a mixture of Arabic (Kaus) and Latin (Australis).
Description of the Star
Kaus Australis is a hot, blue B9.5III giant star, having a diameter 6.7 times that of the sun. It is maybe 320 times as luminous as the sun.

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Le Sagittaire (ce terme signifie « l’Archer ») est une constellation du zodiaque traversée par le Soleil du 18 décembre au 18 janvier. Dans l'ordre du zodiaque, la constellation se situe entre le Scorpion à l'ouest et le Capricorne à l'est.

Le Sagittaire désigne également un signe du zodiaque correspondant au secteur de 30° de l'écliptique traversé par le Soleil du 22 novembre au 21 décembre. C'est dans ce sens qu'il sert au repérage des déplacement planétaires, encore utilisé en astrologie.

On l'appelle aussi l’Arcifère (c’est-à-dire « le porteur d'arc »).
Dans la mythologie grecque, le Sagittaire représenterait le centaure Pholos, bien que certaines sources l’associent plutôt à Crotos ou même à Chiron (lui-même associé à la constellation du Centaure); il serait en train de viser le Scorpion avec son arc.

The constellation's brighter stars (from left to right on the map: τ, ζ, σ, φ, λ, ε, δ, η and γ2 Sagittarii) form an easily recognizable asterism called the Teapot. The Milk Dipper is part of the Teapot. The stars δ Sgr (Kaus Media), ε Sgr (Kaus Australis), ζ Sgr (Ascella), and φ Sgr form the body of the pot; λ Sgr (Kaus Borealis) is the point of the lid; γ2 Sgr (Alnasl) is the tip of the spout; and σ Sgr (Nunki) and τ Sgr the handle.[1][2] The Milky Way can be imagined as the steam rising from the spout.

α Sgr (Rukbat) is not the brightest star of the constellation, having a magnitude of only 3.96 (not shown on the main map as it is located below the map's southeastern corner, north is up).

Gamma-2 Sagittarii (γ² Sgr / γ² Sagittarii) is a star in the constellation Sagittarius. It also has the traditional names Nash, Alnasl, Nasl, or El Nasl, which are derived from the Arabic النصل an-naşl meaning arrowhead.

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Alpha Sco : Antares


Beta Sco : العقرب

العقرب

الجبهة


Gamma Sco : Sargas

الجبهة

النياط

Shaula
الشولة

Related with Orion. Ωρίων

Jabbah

جبهة

Lesath

اللسعة





Planet Mars.

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Azure Dragon :
青
龍


Scorpio :
天
蝎
Wei (chinois : 尾宿, pinyin : wěi xiù) est une loge lunaire de l'astronomie chinoise. Son étoile référente (c'est-à-dire celle qui délimite la frontière gauche de la loge) est μ1 Scorpii. La loge occupe une largeur approximative de 18 degrés. L'astérisme associé à la loge contient, outre cette étoile, huit autres étoiles :
ε Scorpii,
μ1 Scorpii,
ζ Scorpii,
η Scorpii,
θ Scorpii,
ι1 Scorpii,
κ Scorpii,
λ Scorpii,
υ Scorpii,
soit l'ensemble des étoiles formant la queue de la constellation occidentale du Scorpion.
En astrologie chinoise, cette loge est associée au groupe du dragon vert de l'est.



Le dragon vert de l'est (chinois traditionnel : 東方青龍, chinois simplifié : 东方青龙, pinyin : dōng fāng qīng lóng) est l'un des quatre animaux totem des orients et du zodiaque chinois. Il est associé à l'Est et au bois.

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The star table indicates just how bright many of Scorpius's stars are; in fact the constellation is one of the brightest of the larger constellations.
Alpha Scorpii is better known as Antares ("Rival of Mars"). This is one of the four Royal Stars of the ancients, along with Aldebaran, Regulus, and Fomalhaut. It glitters with an unusual metallic red while the entire region is bathed in a pale red nebula, lit from the same star.
This red supergiant has a visual binary that just might be visible, depending on local conditions and the size of one's scope (see below). The star is estimated to be between 285 sun diameters to about 700 suns. It's 600 light years away.
Due west 1º (about half the distance to sigma Sco) is the bright globular cluster M4, while another globular cluster, M80, is 4º NNW of Antares. See below for these deep sky objects.


Double stars in Scorpius:

Alpha Scorpii is a visual binary which may be difficult to resolve due to the brightness of the primary. Try a moonlight night, which should cut the glare of the brighter star: 1.1, 5.4; PA 274º, separation 2.6".
The companion is usually described as green in colour, probably a visual effect created by the red glow of Antares. The star is estimated to orbit its primary every 900 years.
Beta Scorpii. This superb double has a pleasant colour contrast: white and bluish-green. 2.6, 4.9; PA 23º, 13.7".
Nu Scorpii is a multiple system, a "double-double". That is, each of the visible components (AC) is also a primary of a closer component; these are termed AB and CD.
AC: 4.4, 6.4; 337º, and 41" separation.AB: 4.4, 5.4; PA 2º, 1.3".CD: 6.3, 8.0; 51º, 2.3".
Xi Scorpii is also a multiple system, a system which also includes the next binary system as well (Struve 1999).
Components AB form a close binary with period of 45.7 years. The companion is now gradually drawing away from the primary: PA 308º and separation 0.39".
Sigma Scorpii: a double with faint companion. AB: 2.9, 8.5; PA 273º, separation 20".
Struve 1999 is gravitationally attached to the Xi Scorpii system, although at a distance of about 7000 AU (an "AU"--astronomical unit-- being the distance of the earth from the sun).
The binary is found just south of Xi Scorpii, two yellow stars of nearly equal brightness: 7.4, 8.1; 99º, 11.6".


Variable stars in Scorpius:

RR Scorpii is the brightest long-period variable in the constellation, with a visual magnitude range of 5.0-12.4 every 281.45 days. In 1999 the maximum should occur around the end of May.

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Scorpius represents death, darkness, and everything that we look on as evil.

Orion Boasted that so great was his might and skill as a hunter that he could kill all the animals on the face of the Earth. Gaea, Goddess of Earth, was alarmed at such a boastful and inappropriate statement. Gaea decided that Orion must be killed just in case he might one day decide to carry out his boast. So Gaea sent a giant scorpion to Orion and ordered the beast to sting Orion. As mighty as Orion was, after only a brief battle, the scorpion managed to deliver the hunter a deadly sting. Scorpius stung Orion on the heel (at the star Rigel). Orion and the scorpion were given honored places in the sky, but they were placed at opposite ends of the great sky dome so that they would never engage in battle again. Although there are other storied about how Orion met his death, this one is the most common.

In New Zealand, the constellation is not seen as a scorpion, but as a heavenly fish hook.

The Romans at one time called Scorpius "the Lurking One."

The Chinese looked on Antares as a star to be worshipped as a safeguard against fire. They named the star Huo Shing, meaning "the Fire Star."

The farther south one travels until reaching the middle latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere, the higher the Scorpion rises above the southern horizon. In doing so, it seems that the Scorpion also loses its image of being an evil creature. From the Marshall Islands, in the Pacific Ocean, comes the myth of Dümur. The mother of all the stars is Ligedaner (Capella, in Auriga). Her oldest son is Dümur (Antares) and her youngest is Pleiades. Her sons came down from the vault of Heaven to visit their mother, who lived on the atoll Alinablab. While they were there, they suggested that he who was the first to reach a certain island somewhere in the East should be proclaimed King of the Stars.



As mentioned regarding Orion, Gaia may have sent the scorpion to kill the mighty hunter, as he had vowed to rid the earth of all wild animals. Or Apollo might have told Gaia of Orion's boast, fearful that Orion had designs on Apollo's sister Artemis.
In any case it was Gaia who sent the scorpion to kill Orion. Later the animal would chase Orion across the heavens, but it could never catch him, for the scorpion was so placed that it would rise in the east only after Orion had safely disappeared over the western horizon.
is one of the oldest constellations known - possibly even one of the original six signs of the zodiac. While the sun still traverses Scorpius, it only takes nine days to do so; most of the time is spent in neighbouring Ophiuchus (which is the only constellation that the sun enters but which is not a part of the zodiac).
The asterism of a gigantic skewed "S" was seen in many ancient cultures as a scorpion, possibly handed down by cultural conquest or influence. The two stars lambda and upsilon, both called "The Sting" in Arabic, traditionally form the stinger, although some star maps currently show the nearby "G Scorpii" as one of the stingers. We have recently changed our graphic to reflect the original stingers.
The constellation was once much larger, but the western portion representing the claws of the scorpion was given to Libra.

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Shaula

Lambda Scorpii

Shaula probably derives from the Arabic Al Shaulah, meaning "The Sting. This accurately describes the position of the star in the scorpion's sting.
Description of the Star
Shaula is a blue B2IV+B subgiant star. According to the The Bright Star Catalog, the star is a spectroscopic binary. The companion star orbits with a 5.6 day period.
Shaula is a short period variable of Beta Canis Majoris type with a period of 5.1 hours.

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Dschubba

Delta Scorpii

Dschubba may be derived from the Arabic term Al Jabhah, "The Front" (or "The Forehead"). The star is also known as Iclarkrav or Iclarkrau, which may be a modern coinage derived from the Arabic Iklil al 'Akrab meaning "The Crown of the Scorpion."
Description of the Star
Dschubba is a blue B0.3IV subgiant star about 1600 times as luminous as the sun and 6 times the diameter of the sun.
Dschubba has two companions. One has been observed only by its effect on the primary. It orbits with a 20 day period. The other companion orbits with a longer period. It has a Visual Magnitude of about 4.9 and is separated by 0.17 arc sec from the primary, corresponding to a projected separation of about 20 AU.

Sargas

Theta Scorpii

According to Allen the name Sargas is of "Euphratean" origin. I take this to mean that the name is Babylonian.
Description of the Star
Sargas is a yellowish F1II bright giant having a luminosity about 1100 times that of the sun.
Sargas has a companion, Sargas B, of Visual Magnitude 5.30 lying at 6.5 arc sec away from the A star. This star lies at a projected distance of 540 AU away from A, that is, almost 14 times the distance between the sun and Pluto.

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Antares

Alpha Scorpii

The name Antares derives from Greek: anti ares meaning "The Rival of Mars." The name may have to do with the color of the star or with its placement in the constellation of Scorpius, which was particularly associated with Mars in astrology.
Other names for the star are the Latin Cor Scorpii, "The Heart of the Scorpion.". The Arabic Kalb al Akrab means the same thing.
The The Bright Star Catalog offers Vespertilio as yet another name for the star. According to Allen this name means a "Bat" and may go back to the Athenian tragedian Sophocles.
Description of the Star
Antares A is the cool red M1.5Iab-Ib supergiant primary of a double star system. The effective temperature is about 3100 K. The star is approximately 10,000 times as luminous as the sun. Acccording to Burnham Antares A would have a mass of 10 to 15 times that of the sun.
This huge star has a radius that is probably almost 4 AU. If the sun were replaced by Antares A at the center of the solar system, the earth would be engulfed, as would be Mars and the Asteroid Belt. Jupiter would orbit about 1 AU from the surface of the star!
The companion star is a hot blue B4Ve main sequence star. The spectral type implies an effective temperature of 18,000 K.
The companion Antares B is itself larger than the sun, with a diameter about 4 times that of the sun and a mass almost 10 times that of the sun. This star would be about 1900 times as luminous as the sun.
According to the The Bright Star Catalog the orbital period of the two stars about their common center of mass is 878 years. The semimajor axis of the orbit is 2.90 sec of arc corresponding to 540 AU at the distance of the stars. This is about 14 times the radius of the solar system out to Pluto.
Study of the dynamics of the orbit implies a mass of 15.5 times the sun for Antares A and a mass of 7.0 times the sun for B.

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Serqet

The star once designated γ Sco (despite being well within the boundaries of Libra) is today known as σ Lib. Moreover, the entire constellation of Libra was considered to be claws of Scorpius (Chelae Scorpionis) in Ancient Greek times, with a set of scales held aloft by Astraea (represented by adjacent Virgo) being formed from these western-most stars during later Greek times. The division into Libra was formalised during Roman times.

λ Sco and υ Sco, two stars at the end of the scorpion's tail that appear very close together, are sometimes referred to as the Cat's Eyes.

Scorpius resembles, quite noticeably, a scorpion's tail, and a vague body. According to Greek mythology, it corresponds to the scorpion which was sent by the goddess Hera (or possibly Gaia) to kill the hunter Orion, the scorpion rising out of the ground to attack. Although the scorpion and Orion appear together in this myth, the constellation of Orion is almost opposite to Scorpius in the night sky. It has been suggested that this was a divine precaution to forestall the heavenly continuation of the feud.

In one version , Apollo sent the scorpion after Orion, having grown jealous of Artemis' attentions to Orion.[citation needed] Later, in contrition for killing her friend, Apollo helped Artemis hang Orion's image in the night sky. However, the scorpion was also placed up there, and every time it appears on the horizon, Orion starts to sink into the other side of the sky, still running from the attacker.
Scorpius also appears in one version of the story of Phaethon, the mortal son of Helios, the sun. Phaethon asked to drive the sun-chariot for a day. Phaethon lost control of the chariot. The horses, already out of control, were scared by the great celestial scorpion with its sting raised to strike, and the inexperienced boy lost control of the chariot, as the sun wildly went about the sky (this is said to have formed the constellation Eridanus). Finally, Zeus struck him down with a thunderbolt to stop the rampage.

The Chinese included these stars in the Azure Dragon, a powerful but benevolent creature whose rising heralded spring.

In Maori mythology, this constellation can be Maui's magic jawbone (used to fish up the North Island of New Zealand), the front of Tama-rereti's waka (used to ferry the stars into the sky) or one of the posts Tane used to hold Ranginui (the sky-father) in the sky. While three posts (Sirius, Matariki/The Pleiades and Orion) hold up the top half of Ranginui, only a single post (Scorpius) supports the lower half of his body. It therefore appears bent under the weight. The Western astrological sign Scorpio of the tropical zodiac (October 23–November 23) differs from the astronomical constellation and the Hindu astrological sign of the sidereal zodiac (November 16–December 16). Astronomically, the sun is in Scorpius from November 23–November 30. Scorpius corresponds to the nakshatras Anuradha, Jyeshtha, and Mula Jyeshtha (The Eldest) (Devanagari ज्येष्ठा) is the 18th nakshatra or lunar mansion in Vedic astrology associated with the heart of the constellation Scorpii , and the stars α (Antares), σ, and τ . The symbol of Jyeshtha is a circular amulet, umbrella, or earring, and it is associated with Indri, chief of the gods. The lord of Jyeshtha is Budha (Mercury).

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Le signe astrologique du Scorpion ou עקרב ,(qu’occupe le Soleil entre le 23 octobre et le 22 novembre) s’associe avec cette constellation. Dans le calendrier hébraïque correspond au huitième mois, soit le mois de מר-חשון. Dans quelques cosmologies, le Scorpion s’associe avec l’élément classique de l’eau et s’appelle ainsi un signe d’eau, avec le Cancer et les Poissons. Son opposé polaire est le Taureau.

Le Scorpion est une constellation du zodiaque traversée par le Soleil du 23 octobre au 29 novembre. Dans l'ordre du zodiaque, il se situe entre la Balance à l'ouest et le Sagittaire à l'est. Il se trouve dans l’hémisphère sud, très largement sous l'écliptique.

Le Scorpion désigne également un signe du zodiaque correspondant au secteur de 30° de l'écliptique traversé par le Soleil du 23 octobre au 21 novembre. C'est dans ce sens qu'il sert au repérage des déplacement planétaires, encore utilisé en astrologie l'origine, la constellation comprenait également la Balance. Cette dernière a été séparée du Scorpion pour compléter à douze le nombre des constellations zodiacales.

Le Scorpion est l’objet de plusieurs légendes selon la mythologie grecque : il s’agirait du scorpion envoyé par Artémis pour tuer le chasseur Orion. Ainsi il se trouve opposé à la constellation Orion, se levant en été lorsqu’Orion se couche. D’autres versions suggèrent qu’Apollon envoya le scorpion par jalousie envers l’attention qu’Orion portait à Artémis.

It lies between Libra to the west and Sagittarius to the east. It is a large constellation located in the southern hemisphere near the center of the Milky Way.


Scorpius contains many bright stars, including Antares (α Sco), β1 Sco (Graffias), δ Sco (Dschubba), θ Sco (Sargas), λ Sco (Shaula), ν Sco (Jabbah), ξ Sco (Grafias), π Sco {Iclil), σ Sco (Alniyat), τ Sco (also known as Alniyat) and υ Sco (Lesath).