Constellations
Piscis Austrinus (PsA)
The Southern Fish
Also known as southern fish.
6 looks for Piscis Austrinus
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 Piscis Austrinus
- What it is
- One of the IAU's constellations: The Southern Fish
- IAU abbreviation
- PsA
- Its stars are named
- Piscis Austrini (as in "Alpha Piscis Austrini")
- Family
- Heavenly Waters
- Where
- The southern sky: seen best from south of the equator
- Highest in the sky
- At about 9 pm in October
- Centre
- Right ascension 22h 28m, declination −31° 37′
- The figure
- 8 stars joined by 9 lines
- Brightest star
- Fomalhaut, magnitude 1.16
Its stars
Brightest first. A smaller magnitude is a brighter star; the visualizer sizes and colours each one by these.
- Fomalhaut (α PsA)mag 1.16
- ε PsAmag 4.17
- δ PsAmag 4.21
- Fum al Hui (β PsA)mag 4.29
- ι PsAmag 4.34
- γ PsAmag 4.46
- μ PsAmag 4.50
- θ PsAmag 5.01
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