Indus in 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 (近南極星區, Jìnnánjíxīngōu) under the name Persia (波斯, Bōsī).
The name of the western constellation in modern Chinese is 印第安座 (yìn dì ān zuò), meaning "the Indian constellation".
Stars
[edit]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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | 近南極星區 (non-mansions) | Jìnnánjíxīngōu (non-mansions) | The Southern Asterisms (non-mansions) | 波斯 | Bōsī | Persia | ||||
| α Ind[2] | 波斯二 | Bōsīèr | 2nd star | |||||||
| ζ Ind[3] / HD 200249[3] | 波斯三 | Bōsīsān | 3rd star | |||||||
| θ Ind[3] / γ Ind[3] | 波斯四 | Bōsīsì | 4th star | |||||||
| HD 205877[3] / HD 206427[3] | 波斯五 | Bōsīwu | 5th star | |||||||
| δ Ind[3] | 波斯六 | Bōsīliù | 6th star | |||||||
| ε Ind[3] / HD 208796[3] | 波斯七 | Bōsīqī | 7th star | |||||||
| μ Ind[3] | 波斯八 | Bōsībā | 8th star | |||||||
| ι Ind[3] | 波斯九 | Bōsījiǔ | 9th star | |||||||
| HD 198766[3] | 波斯十 | Bōsīshí | 10th star | |||||||
| HD 199623[3] | 波斯十一 | Bōsīshíyī | 11th star | |||||||
| 孔雀[4] | Kǒngqiāo | Peacock | β Ind | 孔雀增四 | Kǒngqiāozēngsì | 4th additional 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.
- ^ (in Chinese) AEEA (Activities of Exhibition and Education in Astronomy) 天文教育資訊網 2006 年 7 月 30 日 Archived 2011-05-22 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m (in Chinese) 夢之大地 @ 國立成功大學 WebBBS DreamLand @ National Cheng Kung University WebBBS System
- ^ this is not original Chinese name in this constellation and listing is only for additional stars