Pavo (Chinese astronomy) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The modern constellation Pavo
Pavo
Pavo may refer to:*The genus name for the peafowl*Pavo *Pavo, Georgia, town in the United States*The Spanish word for turkey....

is not included in the Three Enclosures

Three enclosures

The Three enclosures are the Purple Forbidden enclosure , Supreme Palace enclosure , and Heavenly Market enclosure in the Chinese constellation system....

and Twenty-Eight Mansions

Twenty-eight mansions

The Twenty-eight Mansions , ', ' or ' are part of the Chinese constellations system. They can be considered as the equivalent to the zodiacal constellations in the Western astronomy, though the Twenty-eight Mansions reflect the movement of the Moon in a lunar month rather than the Sun in a solar year...

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

Xu Guangqi

Xu Guangqi , was a Chinese scholar-bureaucrat, agricultural scientist, astronomer, and mathematician in the Ming Dynasty. Xu was a colleague and collaborator of the Italian Jesuits Matteo Ricci and Sabatino de Ursis and they translated several classic Western texts into Chinese, including part of...

and the German Jesuit missionary Johann Adam Schall von Bell

Johann Adam Schall von Bell

Johann Adam Schall von Bell was a German Jesuit and astronomer. He spent most of his life as a missionary in China and became an adviser to the Chinese emperor.- Life :...

in the late Ming Dynasty

Ming Dynasty

The Ming Dynasty, also Empire of the Great Ming, was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty. The Ming, "one of the greatest eras of orderly government and social stability in human history", was the last dynasty in China ruled by ethnic...

, this constellation has been classified as one of the 23 Southern Asterisms (近南極星區, Jìnnánjíxīngōu) under the name Peacock (孔雀, Kǒngqiāo).

Possibly Peacock
Alpha Pavonis
Alpha Pavonis is a star in the constellation Pavo. It is also known by the name Peacock, which was assigned by Her Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office in the late 1930s during the creation of the Air Almanac, a navigational almanac for the Royal Air Force...

(Alpha Pavonis) is the bright star in this constellation that never seen in Chinese sky.

Stars

The map of Chinese constellation in constellation Pavo 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)	孔雀	Kǒngqiāo	Peacock
							η Pav	孔雀一	Kǒngqiāoyī	1st star
							π Pav	孔雀二	Kǒngqiāoèr	2nd star
							ν Pav	孔雀三	Kǒngqiāosān	3rd star
							λ Pav	孔雀四	Kǒngqiāosì	4th star
							κ Pav	孔雀五	Kǒngqiāowu	5th star
							δ Pav Delta Pavonis Delta Pavonis is a star about 19.9 light years away from Earth. It is in the constellation Pavo.-Observations:It is a subgiant of spectral type G8 IV, meaning it is about to stop fusing hydrogen in its core and is starting the process of becoming a red giant. Because of that, Delta Pavonis is...	孔雀六	Kǒngqiāoliù	6th star
							β Pav	孔雀七	Kǒngqiāoqī	7th star
							ζ Pav	孔雀八	Kǒngqiāobā	8th star
							ε Pav	孔雀九	Kǒngqiāojiǔ	9th star
							γ Pav Gamma Pavonis Gamma Pavonis is a star in the constellation Pavo. It is considered a metal-poor star, which means it has a low abundance of elements heavier than helium. It is also orbiting through the Milky Way at an unusually high velocity relative to nearby stars...	孔雀十	Kǒngqiāoshí	10th star
							α Pav Alpha Pavonis Alpha Pavonis is a star in the constellation Pavo. It is also known by the name Peacock, which was assigned by Her Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office in the late 1930s during the creation of the Air Almanac, a navigational almanac for the Royal Air Force...	孔雀十一	Kǒngqiāoshíyī	11th star

Stars

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