According to traditional
Chinese uranography, the modern constellation
Camelopardalis
Camelopardalis is a large but faint constellation of the northern sky representing a giraffe. The constellation was introduced in 1612 or 1613 by Petrus Plancius. Some older astronomy books give Camelopardalus or Camelopardus as alternative for ...
is located in
Three Enclosures (三垣, ''Sān Yuán'')
The name of the western constellation in modern Chinese is 鹿豹座 (''lù bào zuò''), meaning "the leopard-deer constellation".
Stars
The map of Chinese constellation in constellation Camelopardalis area consists of :
See also
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Traditional Chinese star names
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Chinese constellations
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 t ...
References
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External links
Camelopardalis – Chinese associations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]
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中國星區、星官及星名英譯表*
台灣自然科學博物館http://aeea.nmns.edu.tw/ 天文教育資訊網]
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中國古天文*
Astronomy in China
Camelopardalis