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

^ 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