Dorado in Chinese astronomy


The modern constellation Dorado 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, this constellation has been classified under the 23 Southern Asterisms with the names White Patches Attached and Goldfish.
The name of the western constellation in modern Chinese is 劍魚座, meaning "the swordfish constellation".

Stars

The map of Chinese constellation in constellation Dorado area consists of :
Four SymbolsMansion RomanizationTranslationAsterisms RomanizationTranslationWestern star nameChinese star nameRomanizationTranslation
-近南極星區 Jìnnánjíxīngōu The Southern Asterisms -------
-近南極星區 Jìnnánjíxīngōu The Southern Asterisms 夾白JiābáiWhite Patches Attachedθ Dor夾白一Jiābáiyī1st star
-近南極星區 Jìnnánjíxīngōu The Southern Asterisms 金魚Jīnyú Goldfish----
-近南極星區 Jìnnánjíxīngōu The Southern Asterisms 金魚Jīnyú Goldfishγ Dor金魚一Jīnyúyī1st star
-近南極星區 Jìnnánjíxīngōu The Southern Asterisms 金魚Jīnyú Goldfishα Dor金魚二Jīnyúèr2nd star
-近南極星區 Jìnnánjíxīngōu The Southern Asterisms 金魚Jīnyú Goldfishβ Dor金魚三Jīnyúsān3rd star
-近南極星區 Jìnnánjíxīngōu The Southern Asterisms 金魚Jīnyú Goldfishδ Dor金魚四Jīnyúsì4th star
-近南極星區 Jìnnánjíxīngōu The Southern Asterisms 金魚Jīnyú Goldfishη2 Dor金魚五Jīnyúwu5th star