Apus in Chinese astronomy

The modern constellation Apus 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 Exotic Bird (異雀, Yìquè). The name of the western constellation in modern Chinese is 天燕座 (tiān yàn zuò), meaning "the heaven swallow constellation".

## Contents

* 1 Stars
* 2 See also
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Stars

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

Four Symbols | Mansion (Chinese name) | Romanization | Translation | Asterisms (Chinese name) | Romanization | Translation | Western star name | Chinese star name | Romanization | Translation

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- | 近南極星區 (non-mansions)  | Jìnnánjíxīngōu (non-mansions)  | The Southern Asterisms (non-mansions)  | 異雀  | Yìquè | Exotic Bird
ζ Aps[2] | 異雀一 | Yìquèyī | 1st star
ι Aps[2] | 異雀二 | Yìquèèr | 2nd star
β Aps[2] | 異雀三 | Yìquèsān | 3rd star
γ Aps[2] | 異雀四 | Yìquèsì | 4th star
δ1 Aps[2] | 異雀六 | Yìquèliù | 6th star
η Aps[2] | 異雀七 | Yìquèqī | 7th star
α Aps[2] | 異雀八 | Yìquèbā | 8th star
ε Aps[2] | 異雀九 | Yìquèjiǔ | 9th star
三角形[3] | Sānjiǎoxíng | Triangle
κ¹ Aps | 三角形增三 | Sānjiǎoxíngzēngsān | 3rd additional star
κ² Aps | 三角形增四 | Sānjiǎoxíngzēngsì | 4th additional star

## See also

* Chinese astronomy
* Traditional Chinese star names
* Chinese constellations

## References

1. ↑ Sun, Xiaochun (1997). Helaine Selin. ed. Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 910. ISBN 0-7923-4066-3.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Script error: The function "in_lang" does not exist. AEEA (Activities of Exhibition and Education in Astronomy) 天文教育資訊網 2006 年 7 月 29 日
3. ↑ this is not original Chinese name in this constellation and listing is only for additional stars

## External links

* 香港太空館研究資源
* 中國星區、星官及星名英譯表
* 天象文學
* 台灣自然科學博物館天文教育資訊網
* 中國古天文
* 中國古代的星象系統

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