The modern constellation Chamaeleon 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 Little Dipper (小斗, Xiǎodǒu).

The name of the western constellation in modern Chinese is 蝘蜓座 (yǎn tíng zuò), meaning "the flying gecko constellation".

Stars

The map of Chinese constellation in constellation Chamaeleon 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) 小斗 Xiǎodǒu Little Dipper
β Cha[2]小斗一Xiǎodǒuyī1st star
ε Cha[2]小斗二Xiǎodǒuèr2nd star
γ Cha[2]小斗三Xiǎodǒusān3rd star
δ2 Cha[2]小斗四Xiǎodǒusì4th star
ζ Cha[2]小斗五Xiǎodǒuwu5th star
ι Cha[2]小斗六Xiǎodǒuliù6th star
η Cha[2]小斗七 Xiǎodǒuqī7th star
θ Cha[2]小斗八 Xiǎodǒubā8th star
α Cha[2]小斗九Xiǎodǒujiǔ9th star

See also

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. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 (in Chinese) AEEA (Activities of Exhibition and Education in Astronomy) 天文教育資訊網 2006 年 7 月 28 日
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