Constellations
Pisces (Psc)
The Fishes
Also known as fishes.
6 looks for Pisces
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 Pisces
- What it is
- One of the IAU's constellations: The Fishes
- IAU abbreviation
- Psc
- Its stars are named
- Piscium (as in "Alpha Piscium")
- Family
- The zodiac
- Where
- Along the celestial equator: seen from both hemispheres
- Highest in the sky
- At about 9 pm in November
- Centre
- Right ascension 0h 38m, declination +9° 38′
- The figure
- 22 stars joined by 23 lines
- Brightest star
- Alpherg, magnitude 3.62
Star patterns in it: Circlet of Pisces.
Its stars
Brightest first. A smaller magnitude is a brighter star; the visualizer sizes and colours each one by these.
- Alpherg (η Psc)mag 3.62
- γ Pscmag 3.69
- Alrescha (α Psc)mag 3.94
- ω Pscmag 4.01
- ι Pscmag 4.13
- Torcular (ο Psc)mag 4.26
- ε Pscmag 4.28
- θ Pscmag 4.28
- Kuton (δ Psc)mag 4.43
- ν Pscmag 4.44
- λ Pscmag 4.50
- τ Pscmag 4.51
- Fumalsamakah (β Psc)mag 4.53
- ξ Pscmag 4.62
- φ Pscmag 4.65
- χ Pscmag 4.66
- υ Pscmag 4.76
- μ Pscmag 4.84
- Revati (ζ Psc)mag 4.89
- κ Pscmag 4.94
- 19 Pscmag 5.04
- b Pscmag 5.05
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