Indus (Chinese astronomy)
The modern constellation Indus 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 as one of the 23 Southern Asterisms (è¿‘å—極星å€, JìnnánjÃxÄ«ngÅu) under the name Persia (波斯, BÅsÄ«).
The name of the western constellation in modern Chinese is å°ç¬¬å®‰åº§ (yìn dì Än zuò), meaning "the Indian constellation".
Stars
The map of Chinese constellation in constellation Indus area consists of :
| Four Symbols | Mansion (Chinese name) | Romanization | Translation | Asterisms (Chinese name) | Romanization | Translation | Western star name | Chinese star name | Romanization | Translation |
| - | è¿‘å—æ¥µæ˜Ÿå€ (non-mansions) | JìnnánjÃxÄ«ngÅu (non-mansions) | The Southern Asterisms (non-mansions) | 波斯 | BÅsÄ« | Persia | ||||
| α Ind[2] | 波斯二 | BÅsīèr | 2nd star | |||||||
| ζ Ind[3] / HD 200249[3] | 波斯三 | BÅsÄ«sÄn | 3rd star | |||||||
| θ Ind[3] / γ Ind[3] | 波斯四 | BÅsÄ«sì | 4th star | |||||||
| HD 205877[3] / HD 206427[3] | 波斯五 | BÅsÄ«wu | 5th star | |||||||
| δ Ind[3] | æ³¢æ–¯å… | BÅsÄ«liù | 6th star | |||||||
| ε Ind[3] / HD 208796[3] | 波斯七 | BÅsÄ«qÄ« | 7th star | |||||||
| μ Ind[3] | 波斯八 | BÅsÄ«bÄ | 8th star | |||||||
| ι Ind[3] | æ³¢æ–¯ä¹ | BÅsÄ«jiÇ” | 9th star | |||||||
| HD 198766[3] | 波斯å | BÅsÄ«shà | 10th star | |||||||
| HD 199623[3] | 波斯å一 | BÅsÄ«shÃyÄ« | 11th star | |||||||
| å”雀[4] | KÇ’ngqiÄo | Peacock | β Ind | å”雀增四 | KÇ’ngqiÄozÄ“ngsì | 4th additional star |
See also
References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ (Chinese) AEEA (Activities of Exhibition and Education in Astronomy) 天文教育資訊網 2006 年 7 月 30 日
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 (Chinese) 夢之大地 @ 國立æˆåŠŸå¤§å¸ WebBBS DreamLand @ National Cheng Kung University WebBBS System
- ↑ this is not original Chinese name in this constellation and listing is only for additional stars
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