Dorado

It's quite a small constellation, quite faint as well.

It's called Dorado.

Dorado.

That's actually exactly where the name comes from.

So, yeah, Dorado translates from actually Spanish as golden, or that's why you talk about El Dorado, the golden city or whatever it is.

And it's interesting in itself that most constellations have their names in Latin roots.

But, yeah, no, this one, Dorado, is just, yeah, it's a Spanish word.

Cool.

Ooh, uh, I've got a particularly obscure one for us this month.

[laughs] Uh, the constellation of the month this month is Dorado, uh, which is-

A great name.

It's fun to say.

It is.

Dorado.

It's got a really interesting background to its name as well.

So Dorado is a sort of quite small and very faint constellation, um, is very far in the southern sky.