Dorado

Dorado is a constellation of the southern hemisphere. It seems that there is no "final" name for it for it varies from sometimes Goldfish to Swordfish on other occasions. To the ancients (this means, the Greek an similar culture of the northern hemisphere) this constellation was unknown. In the 17th century the german astronomer Johann Bayer (1572-1625) delineated the stargroups near the South Pole of the sky. He stayed with names of land and sea (see constellation families).

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