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Heaven's Great General
Tian Dajiangjun () is a Chinese constellation () in the region of ''Bond (Chinese constellation), Lóu'' (). It contains 11 or 12 stars, in the Western constellations Andromeda (constellation), Andromeda and Triangulum. Its name is translated as "Heaven's Great General" or "Celestial Grand General". In older Western sources its name was transliterated as ''Teen Ta Tseang Keun'' or ''Tëen ta tsëang keun''. Richard Hinckley Allen, R. H. Allen based identification of Chinese star names by the English astronomer John Williams (astronomer), John Williams (1797–1874) and the naturalist John Reeves (naturalist), John Reeves. But Allen lacked last word ''kuen'' as ''Tien Ta Tseang'' and also transliterated it as ''Tsien Ta Tseang''.Allen (1963): p.416. Identification of stars ; Notes ＊ 54 And is designated as φ Per in recent times. Notes References * * 大崎正次 (1987): 「中国の星座・星名の同定一覧表」『中国の星座の歴史』 雄山閣出版, p. 326 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese Constellation
Traditional Chinese astronomy has a system of dividing the celestial sphere into asterisms or constellations, known as "officials" ( Chinese ''xīng guān''). The Chinese asterisms are generally smaller than the constellations of Hellenistic tradition. The Song dynasty (13th-century) Suzhou planisphere shows a total of 283 asterisms, comprising a total of 1,565 individual stars. The asterisms are divided into four groups, the Twenty-Eight Mansions (, ''Èrshíbā Xiù'') along the ecliptic, and the Three Enclosures of the northern sky. The southern sky was added as a fifth group in the late Ming dynasty based on European star charts, comprising an additional 23 asterisms. The Three Enclosures (, ''Sān Yuán'') include the Purple Forbidden Enclosure, which is centered on the north celestial pole and includes those stars which could be seen year-round,Needham, J.Astronomy in Ancient and Medieval China. ''Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London''. Ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
