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  2. Lunar station - Wikipedia

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    The 28 Lunar Mansions, or more precisely lodgings (Chinese: 二十 八 宿; pinyin: èrshí bā xiù) are the Chinese and East Asian form of the lunar stations. They can be considered as the equivalent to the Western zodiac, although the 28 stations reflect the movement of the Moon through a sidereal month rather than the Sun in a tropical year; (cf. Solar term).

  3. Twenty-Eight Mansions - Wikipedia

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    The Twenty-Eight Mansions (Chinese: 二十八宿; pinyin: Èrshíbā Xiù), also called xiu [1] or hsiu, are part of the Chinese constellations system. They can be considered as the equivalent to the zodiacal constellations in Western astronomy , though the Twenty-eight Mansions reflect the movement of the Moon through a sidereal month rather ...

  4. Nakshatra - Wikipedia

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    The 28 mansions of the 360° lunar zodiac total 831 Muhurtas or 27.7 days. This is sometimes described as an inaccurate estimate of our modern sidereal period of 27.3 days, but using the ancient Indian calendar with Vedic months of 30 days and a daily movement of the Moon of 13 degrees, this early designation of a sidereal month of 831 Muhurtas ...

  5. Chinese constellations - Wikipedia

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    The system of twenty-eight lunar mansions is very similar (although not identical) to the Indian Nakshatra system, and it is not currently known if there was mutual influence in the history of the Chinese and Indian systems. The oldest extant Chinese star maps date to the Tang dynasty.

  6. Extraterrestrial real estate - Wikipedia

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    In 1980, he started his own business, the Lunar Embassy Commission. [26] Hope claimed to have sold 2.5M 1-acre (0.40 ha; 4,000 m 2) plots on the Moon as of 2009, for around US$20 per acre (US$50/ha). He allocates land to be sold by closing his eyes and randomly pointing to a map of the Moon.

  7. Chinese astronomy - Wikipedia

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    The divisions of the sky began with the Northern Dipper and the 28 mansions. In 1977, a lacquer box was excavated from the Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng, in Suixian, Hubei Province. Names of the 28 lunar mansions were found on the cover of the box, proving that the use of this classification system was made before 433 BCE. [8]

  8. Decan - Wikipedia

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    Decans gave way to a lunar division of 27 or 28 lunar stations, also known as manzil, lunar mansions or nakshatras and thence to a zodiac of 12 signs, based on an anthropomorphic pattern of constellations, [2] and their use can be seen in the Dendera zodiac dated to circa 50 BCE. [3]

  9. Emptiness (Chinese constellation) - Wikipedia

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    The Emptiness mansion (simplified Chinese: 虚宿; traditional Chinese: 虛宿; pinyin: Xū Xiù) is one of the Twenty-eight mansions of the Chinese constellations. [1] It is one of the northern mansions of the Black Tortoise. [citation needed]