Chamaeleon (Chinese astronomy)

The modern constellation Chamaeleon 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 Little Dipper (小斗, Xiǎodǒu).

The name of the western constellation in modern Chinese is 蝘蜓座 (yǎn tíng zuò), meaning "the flying gecko constellation".

Stars

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

Four Symbols	Mansion (Chinese name)	Romanization	Translation	Asterisms (Chinese name)	Romanization	Translation	Western star name	Chinese star name	Romanization	Translation
-	近南極星區 (non-mansions)	Jìnnánjíxīngōu (non-mansions)	The Southern Asterisms (non-mansions)	小斗	Xiǎodǒu	Little Dipper
							β Cha^[2]	小斗一	Xiǎodǒuyī	1st star
							ε Cha^[2]	小斗二	Xiǎodǒuèr	2nd star
							γ Cha^[2]	小斗三	Xiǎodǒusān	3rd star
							δ² Cha^[2]	小斗四	Xiǎodǒusì	4th star
							ζ Cha^[2]	小斗五	Xiǎodǒuwu	5th star
							ι Cha^[2]	小斗六	Xiǎodǒuliù	6th star
							η Cha^[2]	小斗七	Xiǎodǒuqī	7th star
							θ Cha^[2]	小斗八	Xiǎodǒubā	8th star
							α Cha^[2]	小斗九	Xiǎodǒujiǔ	9th star

↑ 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.
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