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Pictor (Chinese Astronomy)
The modern constellation Pictor (constellation), Pictor lies across one of the quadrants symbolized by the Vermilion Bird (Chinese constellation), Vermillion Bird of the South (南方朱雀, ''Nán Fāng Zhū Què'') and Chinese constellations#The Southern Asterisms (近南極星區), The Southern Asterisms (近南極星區, ''Jìnnánjíxīngōu''), that divide the sky in traditional Traditional Chinese star names#Categories of Chinese traditional uranography, Chinese uranography. The name of the western constellation in modern Chinese is 繪架座 (''huì jià zuò''), meaning "the easel constellation". Stars The map of Chinese constellation in constellation Pictor area consists of : See also *Traditional Chinese star names *Chinese constellations References {{reflist External links 香港太空館https://web.archive.org/web/20120813070951/http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/Museum/Space/Research/c_index.htm 研究資源] *中國星區、星官及星名英譯表*台灣自然科學博 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pictor (constellation)
Pictor is a constellation in the Southern Celestial Hemisphere, located between the star Canopus and the Large Magellanic Cloud. Its name is Latin for painter, and is an abbreviation of the older name Equuleus Pictoris (the "painter's easel"). Normally represented as an easel, Pictor was named by Abbé Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille in the 18th century. The constellation's brightest star is Alpha Pictoris, a white main-sequence star around 97 light-years away from Earth. Pictor also hosts RR Pictoris, a cataclysmic variable star system that flared up as a nova, reaching apparent (visual) magnitude 1.2 in 1925 before fading into obscurity. Pictor has attracted attention because of its second-brightest star Beta Pictoris, 63.4 light-years distant from Earth, which is surrounded by an unusual dust disk rich in carbon, as well as an exoplanet (extrasolar planet). Another five stars in the constellation have been observed to have planets. Among them is HD 40307, an ora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
