page_title: Dorado
section_title: Features
hierarchical_section_title: Dorado / Features
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of the constellation Dorado, the Swordfish Deutsch: Foto des Sternbildes Dorado, Goldfisch
context_page_description: Dorado is a constellation in the southern sky. It was named in the late 16th century and is now one of the 88 modern constellations. Its name refers to the dolphinfish, which is known as dorado in Portuguese, although it has also been depicted as a swordfish. Dorado contains most of the Large Magellanic Cloud, the remainder being in the constellation Mensa. The South Ecliptic pole also lies within this constellation.
  Even though the name Dorado is not Latin but Portuguese, astronomers give it the Latin genitive form Doradus when naming its stars; it is treated as a feminine proper name of Greek origin ending in -ō, which have a genitive ending -ūs.
caption: The constellation Dorado as it can be seen by the naked eye.
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