Dorado in Chinese astronomy
The modern constellation Dorado is not included in the Three Enclosures and Twenty-Eight Mansions system of traditional Chinese uranography because its stars are too far south for observers in China to know about them prior to the introduction of Western star charts. Based on the work of Xu Guangqi and the German Jesuit missionary Johann Adam Schall von Bell in the late Ming Dynasty,[1] this constellation has been classified under the 23 Southern Asterisms (近南極星區, Jìnnánjíxīngōu) with the names White Patches Attached (夾白, Jiābái) and Goldfish (金魚, Jīnyú).
The name of the western constellation in modern Chinese is 劍魚座 (jiàn yú zuò), meaning "the swordfish constellation".
Stars
[edit]The map of Chinese constellation in constellation Dorado area consists of :
| Four Symbols | Mansion (Chinese name) | Romanization | Translation | Asterisms (Chinese name) | Romanization | Translation | Western star name | Chinese star name | Romanization | Translation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | 近南極星區 (non-mansions) | Jìnnánjíxīngōu (non-mansions) | The Southern Asterisms (non-mansions) | |||||||
| 夾白 | Jiābái | White Patches Attached | θ Dor[2] | 夾白一 | Jiābáiyī | 1st star | ||||
| 金魚 | Jīnyú | Goldfish | ||||||||
| γ Dor[2] | 金魚一 | Jīnyúyī | 1st star | |||||||
| α Dor[2] | 金魚二 | Jīnyúèr | 2nd star | |||||||
| β Dor[2] | 金魚三 | Jīnyúsān | 3rd star | |||||||
| δ Dor[2] | 金魚四 | Jīnyúsì | 4th star | |||||||
| η2 Dor[2] | 金魚五 | Jīnyúwu | 5th star |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Sun, Xiaochun (1997). Helaine Selin (ed.). Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. Kluwer Academic Publishers. p. 910. ISBN 0-7923-4066-3.
- ^ a b c d e f (in Chinese) AEEA (Activities of Exhibition and Education in Astronomy) 天文教育資訊網 2006 年 7 月 27 日