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Wings (Chinese constellation)

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Yì Xiù map

The Wings mansion (翼宿, pinyin: Yì Xiù) is one of the Twenty-eight mansions of the Chinese constellations. It is one of the southern mansions of the Vermilion Bird.

Asterisms

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English name Chinese name European constellation Number of stars
Wings Crater/Hydra/Sextans 22
Dongou[1] 東甌 Antlia/Vela 5

References

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  1. ^ Dongou is the name of a place in Wenzhou, in southern Zhejiang.