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Abbreviation | Dor |
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Genitive | Doradus |
Pronunciation | /dɒˈreɪdo/, genitive /dɒˈreɪdəs/ |
Symbolism | the dolphinfish or the swordfish |
Right ascension | 5 h |
Declination | −65° |
Family | Bayer |
Quadrant | SQ1 |
Area | 179 sq. deg. (72nd) |
Main stars | 3 |
Bayer/Flamsteed stars |
14 |
Stars with known planets |
2 |
Stars brighter than 3m | 0 |
Stars within 10 pc (32.6 ly) | 0 |
Brightest star | α Dor (3.27m) |
Nearest star | GJ 2036 (36.50 ly, 11.19 pc) |
Messier objects | 0 |
Meteor showers | None |
Bordering constellations |
Caelum Horologium Reticulum Hydrus Mensa Volans Pictor |
Visible at latitudes
between +20° and −90°. Best visible at 21:00 (9 p.m.) during the month of January. |
Dorado is a constellation in the southern sky, created in the late sixteenth century and now one of the 88 modern constellations. Its name refers to the dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus), which is known as dorado in Spanish, although it has also been depicted as a swordfish in the past. Dorado is notable for containing most of the Large Magellanic Cloud, the remainder being in the constellation Mensa. The South Ecliptic Pole also lies within this constellation.
Even though the name Dorado is not Latin but Spanish, astronomers give it the Latin genitive form Doradus when naming its stars; they are treating it (like the adjacent constellation Argo Navis) as if it were a feminine proper name of Greek origin ending in -ō (like Io or Callisto or Argo), names that have a genitive ending in -ūs.
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Dorado was one of twelve constellations created by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman and it first appeared on a 35-cm diameter celestial globe published in 1597 (or 1598) in Amsterdam by Plancius with Jodocus Hondius. Its first depiction in a celestial atlas was in Johann Bayer's Uranometria of 1603 where it was also named Dorado. The constellation was also known in the 17th and 18th century as Xiphias, the swordfish, first attested in Johannes Kepler's edition of Tycho Brahe's star list in the Rudolphine Tables of 1627. The name Dorado ultimately become dominant and was adopted by the IAU.
Because Dorado contains part of the Large Magellanic Cloud, it is rich in deep sky objects. All coordinates given are for Epoch J2000.0.
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Coordinates: 05h 00m
00s, −65° 00′ 00″
Dorado is a city in Costa de Oro.
Located just west of San Juan, less than 10 miles.
Publico is available throughout the area, though for the vacation traveler a car is handy.
The beautiful coast as you drive west on 165 from San Juan
Visit Nolos Morales Park and Beach.
Most all major chains and a few special ones
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Named by Dutch explorers Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman between 1595 and 1597. From Italian dorato, ultimately from Latin deauratus, the past participle of deaurō (“‘to gild’”).
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Dorado
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