Pavo in Chinese astronomy

The modern constellation Pavo 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 Peacock (孔雀, Kǒngqiāo).

Possibly Peacock (Alpha Pavonis) is the bright star in this constellation that never seen in Chinese sky.

The name of the western constellation in modern Chinese is 孔雀座 (kǒng què zuò), which means "the peacock constellation".

Stars

The map of Chinese constellation in constellation Pavo 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) 孔雀 Kǒngqiāo Peacock
η Pav[2]孔雀一Kǒngqiāoyī1st star
π Pav[2]孔雀二Kǒngqiāoèr2nd star
ν Pav[2]孔雀三Kǒngqiāosān3rd star
λ Pav[2]孔雀四Kǒngqiāosì4th star
κ Pav[2]孔雀五Kǒngqiāowu5th star
δ Pav[2]孔雀六Kǒngqiāoliù6th star
β Pav[2]孔雀七Kǒngqiāoqī7th star
ζ Pav[2]孔雀八Kǒngqiāobā8th star
ε Pav[2]孔雀九Kǒngqiāojiǔ9th star
γ Pav[2]孔雀十Kǒngqiāoshí10th star
α Pav[2]孔雀十一Kǒngqiāoshíyī11th star
HD 172555孔雀增一Kǒngqiāozēngyī1st additional star
ξ Pav孔雀增二Kǒngqiāozēngèr2nd additional star
ω Pav孔雀增三Kǒngqiāozēngsān3rd additional 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. (in Chinese) AEEA (Activities of Exhibition and Education in Astronomy) 天文教育資訊網 2006 年 7 月 30 日
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