The modern constellation Musca

Musca

Musca is one of the minor southern constellations. The constellation 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 in Amsterdam by...

is not included in the Three Enclosures

Three enclosures

The Three enclosures are the Purple Forbidden enclosure , Supreme Palace enclosure , and Heavenly Market enclosure in the Chinese constellation system....

 and Twenty-Eight Mansions

Twenty-eight mansions

The Twenty-eight Mansions , ', ' or ' are part of the Chinese constellations system. They can be considered as the equivalent to the zodiacal constellations in the Western astronomy, though the Twenty-eight Mansions reflect the movement of the Moon in a lunar month rather than the Sun in a solar year...

 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

Xu Guangqi

Xu Guangqi , was a Chinese scholar-bureaucrat, agricultural scientist, astronomer, and mathematician in the Ming Dynasty. Xu was a colleague and collaborator of the Italian Jesuits Matteo Ricci and Sabatino de Ursis and they translated several classic Western texts into Chinese, including part of...

 and the German Jesuit missionary Johann Adam Schall von Bell

Johann Adam Schall von Bell

Johann Adam Schall von Bell was a German Jesuit and astronomer. He spent most of his life as a missionary in China and became an adviser to the Chinese emperor.- Life :...

 in the late Ming Dynasty

Ming Dynasty

The Ming Dynasty, also Empire of the Great Ming, was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty. The Ming, "one of the greatest eras of orderly government and social stability in human history", was the last dynasty in China ruled by ethnic...

, this constellation has been classified under the 23 Southern Asterisms (近南極星區, Jìnnánjíxīngōu) with the names Bee (蜜蜂, Mìfēng) and Sea and Mountain  (海山, Hǎishān).

Stars

The map of Chinese constellation in constellation Musca area consists of:

Four Symbols	Mansion (Chinese name)	Romanization	Translation	Asterisms (Chinese name)	Romanization	Translation	Western star name	Chinese star name	Romanization	Translation
-	近南極星區 (non-mansions)	Jìnnánjíxīngōu (non-mansions)	The Southern Asterisms (non-mansions)	蜜蜂	Mìfēng	Bee
							β Mus Beta Muscae Beta Muscae is a 3rd-magnitude star in the constellation Musca, the second brighest star in the constellation....	蜜蜂一	Mìfēngyī	1st star
							α Mus Alpha Muscae Alpha Muscae is a Class B2, third-magnitude star in the constellation Musca.This hot class B subgiant shines from a distance of 306 light years at a luminosity of 4,520 times that of the Sun from a blue-white surface with a fairly well determined temperature of 21,900 kelvins, so hot that most of...	蜜蜂二	Mìfēngèr	2nd star
							δ Mus Delta Muscae Delta Muscae , often catalogued as HD 112985, is a spectroscopic binary star system and the closest to the Earth in the southern hemisphere constellation of Musca at a distance of approximately 27.8 parsecs . The main star is classified as a giant star with an orange tint...	蜜蜂四	Mìfēngsì	4th star
				海山	Hǎishān	Sea and Mountain	λ Mus Lambda Muscae Lambda Muscae , often catalogued HD 102249 or HIP 57363, is the fourth brightest star in the southern hemisphere constellation of Musca . Lambda Muscae visibly makes up the far end of the tail of the visual Musca constellation...	海山六	Hǎishānliù	6th star