Indus in Chinese astronomy

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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 (近南極星區, Jìnnánjíxīngōu) under the name Persia (波斯, Bōsī).

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The name of the western constellation in modern Chinese is 印第安座 (yìn dì ān zuò), meaning "the Indian constellation".

Stars

The map of Chinese constellation in constellation Indus area consists of :

Four SymbolsMansion (Chinese name)RomanizationTranslationAsterisms (Chinese name)RomanizationTranslationWestern star nameChinese star nameRomanizationTranslation
-近南極星區 (non-mansions)Jìnnánjíxīngōu (non-mansions) The Southern Asterisms (non-mansions)波斯BōsīPersia
α Ind [2] 波斯二Bōsīèr2nd star
ζ Ind [3] / HD 200249 [3] 波斯三Bōsīsān3rd star
θ Ind [3] / γ Ind [3] 波斯四Bōsīsì4th star
HD 205877 [3] / HD 206427 [3] 波斯五Bōsīwu5th star
δ Ind [3] 波斯六Bōsīliù6th star
ε Ind [3] / HD 208796 [3] 波斯七Bōsīqī7th star
μ Ind [3] 波斯八Bōsībā8th star
ι Ind [3] 波斯九Bōsījiǔ9th star
HD 198766 [3] 波斯十Bōsīshí10th star
HD 199623 [3] 波斯十一Bōsīshíyī11th star
孔雀 [4] KǒngqiāoPeacock β Ind 孔雀增四Kǒngqiāozēngsì4th additional star

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References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ (in Chinese) AEEA (Activities of Exhibition and Education in Astronomy) 天文教育資訊網 2006 年 7 月 30 日
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 (in Chinese) 夢之大地 @ 國立成功大學 WebBBS DreamLand @ National Cheng Kung University WebBBS System
  4. ↑ this is not original Chinese name in this constellation and listing is only for additional stars
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