Heavenly Market enclosure

Heavenly Market enclosure

Tian Shi Yuan, the Heavenly Market Enclosure (天市垣), is one of the San Yuan or Three enclosures. Stars and constellations of this group are visible during late summer and early autumn in the Northern Hemisphere (late winter and early spring in the Southern). The summer triangle lies directly to the northwest.

See also

* Twenty-eight mansions
* Summer triangle


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