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Tian Dajiangjun
Chinese constellation From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tian Dajiangjun (simplified Chinese: 天大将军; traditional Chinese: 天大將軍; pinyin: Tiān Dà Jiāngjūn) is a Chinese constellation (星官) in the region of Lóu (婁宿天區). It contains 11 or 12 stars, in the Western constellations Andromeda and Triangulum.[1] Its name is translated as "Heaven's Great General"[2] or "Celestial Grand General".[1] In older Western sources its name was transliterated as Teen Ta Tseang Keun[3] or Tëen ta tsëang keun.[4] R. H. Allen based identification of Chinese star names by the English astronomer John Williams (1797–1874) and the naturalist John Reeves.[5] But Allen lacked last word kuen as Tien Ta Tseang[2] and also transliterated it as Tsien Ta Tseang.[6]
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Identification of stars
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* 54 And is designated as φ Per in recent times.
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