星座原本是人们为便于观测而将星空划分成的若干个区域。1928年国际天文学联合会规定,全部天空共分88星座,它们的界线大致是平行和垂直于1875年天赤道的弧线。根据88星座在天球上的不同位置和恒星出没的情况,又划分成五大区域,即北天拱极星座、北天星座、黄道星座、赤道带星座、南天星座,每个区域有大小和数量不等的星座。可见,星座实际上只是天文学的意义。 The constellation was originally a number of areas that people divided the sky into for easy observation. 1928 International Astronomical Union provides that all the sky is divided into 88 constellations, their boundaries are roughly parallel and perpendicular to the sky 1875 equatorial arc. According to the 88 constellations in different positions on the celestial sphere and the case of stellar invaders, it is also divided into five major regions, namely the Northern sky arch constellation, the North sky constellation, the constellation Zodiac, the equatorial constellation and the South constellation, each region has the size and number of Such as the constellation. Visible, constellation is actually just the significance of astronomy.