What does the horoscope say?

The celestial coordinate system we talked about earlier was invented by people to determine the position of celestial bodies. There is no network of longitude and latitude in the actual sky. For easy identification, people group the seemingly motionless stars to mark different areas in the sky. With rich imagination, people connect the bright stars in the constellation into different figures and name them according to their shapes, or imagine the shapes of people, animals, insects, fish and utensils, or combine fairy tales. These areas in the sky are called constellations.

As early as around 3000 BC, the Babylonians had divided the brighter stars into several "constellations". The ancient Greeks mainly named their constellations after mythical figures or animals. In the 2nd century A.D., Greek astronomers had determined the name of Polaris to a great extent. It was not until17th century successfully sailed around the world that the 48 constellations in the southern sky were gradually determined through the observation of navigators. 1928, the international astronomical union announced the 88-constellation scheme, which stipulated that vernal equinox and the equator in 1875 should be taken as reference points, and the latitude and longitude of the equator should be taken as the boundary of the constellation. The whole day is divided into 88 constellations, big and small.

Constellation table

Chinese name English name symbol area

(Square degree) magnitude (visual magnitude is brighter than 6) Andromeda * Andromeda and 722 100 air pump 23920 days wild goose bit dof ParadiseAps20620 Aquarius △ water bear erAqr98090 Skyhawk * EagleAql65270 Temple of Heaven AltarAra23730 Aries △ Ramari44/kloc-0 Yuzhe 'ao 65790 Mu Fu * bear driver bo 90790 carved Berenice hair com 38653 Southern Crown 12825 Northern Crown CRB17920 Crowcrv18415 Grand Duke CupCrt28220 Southern CrossCru6830 Swan * Swan G804. Kloc-0/50 Dolphin * Dolphin Del 18930 Swordfish 17920 Tianlong * Xiaolong 65440 Giant Snake CarrierOph948 100 Orion Ori594120 Peacock Pay37845 Pegasus * Winged Horse PEG/Kloc Perseus per 61590 PHOENIX PHE 46940 EASEL PIC 24730 Pisces △fish spsc 88975 South Fishbone Sternpup6731415 Arrow in the sky * ArrowSge8020 Sagittarius △ArcherSgr867 1 15 Scorpio △ Scorpio △SCO 497 100 Imperial Workshop SC7530Shield * Shields CT10920 Serpent * Serpent63760 sextant sextantex. "Number of stars" refers to the stars whose visual magnitude is greater than 6 in the constellation, that is, the stars that can be seen by the naked eye; The constellation with "*" belongs to Polaris, and there are four * * *; The constellation with "△" belongs to the zodiac, with12 * *; The other constellations belong to the Southern Sky Constellation.