Constellations
Pegasus (Peg)
The Winged Horse
Also known as winged horse.
6 looks for Pegasus
The constellation in a clear night sky over the hills: its lines draw themselves one on every beat, its real stars twinkle with the part of the song their colour answers, the Milky Way glows and a shooting star crosses on the big moments.
About Pegasus
- What it is
- One of the IAU's constellations: The Winged Horse
- IAU abbreviation
- Peg
- Its stars are named
- Pegasi (as in "Alpha Pegasi")
- Family
- Perseus family
- Where
- The northern sky: seen best from north of the equator
- Highest in the sky
- At about 9 pm in October
- Centre
- Right ascension 22h 44m, declination +21° 01′
- The figure
- 14 stars joined by 14 lines
- Brightest star
- Alpheratz, magnitude 2.06
Star patterns in it: Great Square of Pegasus.
Its stars
Brightest first. A smaller magnitude is a brighter star; the visualizer sizes and colours each one by these.
- Alpheratz (α And)mag 2.06
- Enif (ε Peg)mag 2.39
- Scheat (β Peg)mag 2.42
- Markab (α Peg)mag 2.49
- Algenib (γ Peg)mag 2.83
- Matar (η Peg)mag 2.94
- Homam (ζ Peg)mag 3.40
- Sadalbari (μ Peg)mag 3.48
- Biham (θ Peg)mag 3.53
- ι Pegmag 3.76
- Sadalnazi (λ Peg)mag 3.95
- κ Pegmag 4.13
- Suudalnujum (ξ Peg)mag 4.19
- π Pegmag 4.29
Every star's place, brightness and colour is the Yale Bright Star Catalogue's; the figure is the IAU's, through d3-celestial (credited on the licences page). Constellations template · Every constellation