Wings (Chinese constellation)

The Wings mansion (翼宿, pinyin: Yì Xiù) is one of the Twenty-eight mansions of the Chinese constellations. It is one of the southern mansions of the Vermilion Bird.

Yì Xiù map

Asterisms

English nameChinese nameEuropean constellationNumber of stars
WingsCrater/Hydra22
Dongou[1]東甌Antlia/Vela5
gollark: Do we put it on some planet or in stellar orbit?
gollark: Really, why not have a giant laser system *anyway*?
gollark: Exciting!
gollark: Or, as <@332271551481118732> sort of suggested, blast chunks off it for mining.
gollark: I guess with a lot of heatproofing you could use geothermal power.

References

  1. Dongou is the name of a place in Wenzhou, in southern Zhejiang.
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