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Sky Chart and Artist Rendering of Dorado
Origin:
Proposed by Dutch navigator P.D. Keyser in 1596 and introduced by Johann Bayer in 1603 in the Uranometria.
Some sources identify Dorado as the dolphinfish (mahi mahi in Hawaii) and
the goldfish.
Information:
Dorado is a long, sprawling constellation that starts at one end within
20° of the south celestial pole and terminates at the other end near Caelum, passing by Reticulum,
Pictor, and Horologium
on its way north. The Large Magellanic Cloud is found at the border
dividing Dorado and Mensa, the Table, but Dorado
is otherwise and unremarkable grouping. Dorado culminates for
southern observers at 9 pm around the end of January. Most of Dorado
is always below the horizon for observers north of 20° N lat. |
