In astronomy, ‘The Big Dipper’ is another name for which constellation?
Big Dipper Other names for the constellation include "Perkūno Ratai" ("Wheels of Perkūnas"), "Kaušas" ("Bucket"), "Vežimas" ("Carriage"), and "Samtis" ("Summit"). In traditional Chinese astronomy, which continues to be used throughout East Asia (e.g., in astrology), these stars are generally considered to compose the Right Wall of the Purple Forbidden Enclosure which surrounds the Northern Celestial Pole, although numerous other groupings and names have been made over the centuries. Similarly, each star has a distinct name, which likewise has varied over time and depending upon the asterism being constructed. The Western asterism is now known as the "Northern Dipper" () or the "Seven
Chamaeleon in Chinese astronomy Chamaeleon in Chinese astronomy The modern constellation Chamaeleon is not included in the Three Enclosures and Twenty-Eight Mansions system of traditional Chinese uranography because its stars are too far south for observers in China to know about them prior to the introduction of Western star charts. Based on the work of Xu Guangqi and the German Jesuit missionary Johann Adam Schall von Bell in the late Ming Dynasty, this constellation has been classified as one of the 23 Southern Asterisms (近南極星區, "Jìnnánjíxīngōu") under the name Little Dipper (小斗, "Xiǎodǒu"). The name of the western constellation in modern Chinese is 蝘蜓座