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Dorado

constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere
Place constellation Q8837

Facts

12 properties
Instance of
constellation
Inception
1598[11]
Part of
Southern Celestial Hemisphere[10]
Short name
Dor[17]
Area
+179[18]
Described by source
Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 8[12][13]
Discoverer or inventor
Petrus Plancius[1]
Named after
mahi-mahi[9]
Official name
Dorado[16]
P14541
1QN24j[19]
Shares border with
Caelum, Horologium, Reticulum, Hydrus, Mensa, Volans, Pictor[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
Topic has template
Template:Stars of Dorado, Šablona:Souhvězdí Mečouna[14][15]
🏷️ Also known as
en Dorado (constellation) en Doradus en the Swordfish en Dor en Dorado ar كوكبة أبو سيف ar كوكبة أبي سيف ar أبو سيف cs souhvězdí Mečouna cs Mečoun da Sværdfisken da Guldfisken de Schwertfisch el Dorado el Dor el Δοράς fa ماهی زرین fi Kultakala fr Dorade he דג זהב
🔖 Identifiers · 16
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Constellation Dorado.jpg ↗
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID
236837
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Dorado-constellation
Freebase ID
/m/02c1x
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Gullfisken
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
1995028
Interlingual Index ID
i85337
KBpedia ID
Dorado-Constellation
Larousse ID
divers/Dorade/116911
Lex ID
Guldfisken
Namuwiki ID
황새치자리
NicoNicoPedia ID
かじき座
Show all 16 identifiers +4
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
4001758
Pixiv Encyclopedia ID
かじき座
Topic's main category
Category:Dorado
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
09292080-n
🔗 Connections
← Constellation 262
Large Magellanic Cloud, Tarantula Nebula, R136a1, SN 1987A, NGC 2080, WOH G64, NGC 2060, NGC 1515 +254 more
Shares border with 7
Hydrus, Caelum, Horologium, Pictor, Volans, Mensa, Reticulum
← Shares border with 7
Hydrus, Caelum, Horologium, Pictor, Volans, Mensa, Reticulum
Belongs to 1
Southern Celestial Hemisphere
Described by source 1
Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
Discoverer or inventor 1
Petrus Plancius
Instance of 1
constellation
Named after 1
mahi-mahi
Part of 1
Southern Celestial Hemisphere
Topic has template 1
Template:Stars of Dorado
Topic's main category 1
Category:Dorado
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Dorado
← Different from 1
sword
← SNARC ID 1
Dyffryn Cennen
← Template has topic 1
Template:Stars of Dorado
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Related Entities

Petrus Plancius

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  16. [16] ↑ . iau.org. iau.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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  1. 16w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Dorado
    Topic has template → Template:Stars of Dorado, Šablona:Souhvězdí Mečouna
    Named after → mahi-mahi
    Shares border with → Caelum, Horologium, Reticulum +4
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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