Musca in Chinese astronomy


The modern constellation Musca 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 Bee and Sea and Mountain .
The name of the western constellation in modern Chinese is 苍蝇座, meaning "the housefly constellation".

Stars

The map of Chinese constellation in constellation Musca area consists of:
Four SymbolsMansion RomanizationTranslationAsterisms RomanizationTranslationWestern star nameChinese star nameRomanizationTranslation
-近南極星區 Jìnnánjíxīngōu The Southern Asterisms 蜜蜂MìfēngBee----
-近南極星區 Jìnnánjíxīngōu The Southern Asterisms 蜜蜂MìfēngBeeβ Mus蜜蜂一Mìfēngyī1st star
-近南極星區 Jìnnánjíxīngōu The Southern Asterisms 蜜蜂MìfēngBeeα Mus蜜蜂二Mìfēngèr2nd star
-近南極星區 Jìnnánjíxīngōu The Southern Asterisms 蜜蜂MìfēngBeeδ Mus蜜蜂四Mìfēngsì4th star
-近南極星區 Jìnnánjíxīngōu The Southern Asterisms 海山HǎishānSea and Mountainλ Mus海山六Hǎishānliù6th star