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Pegasus is a constellation in the northern sky, named after the winged horse Pegasus in Greek mythology. It was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd-century astronomer Ptolemy , and is one of the 88 constellations recognised today.
The equatorial region of the celestial sphere's western hemisphere includes 13 navigational stars from Gienah in the constellation Corvus to Markab in Pegasus. It also includes stars from the constellations Virgo, Bootes, Libra, Corona Borealis, Scorpio, Ophiuchus, Sagittarius, and Aquila.
A diagram of a typical nautical sextant, a tool used in celestial navigation to measure the angle between two objects viewed by means of its optical sight. Celestial navigation, also known as astronavigation, is the practice of position fixing using stars and other celestial bodies that enables a navigator to accurately determine their actual current physical position in space or on the ...
NGC 7343 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Pegasus. Its velocity relative to the cosmic microwave background is 7150 ± 24 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 105.5 ± 7.4 Mpc (~344 million ly). NGC 7343 was discovered by American astronomer Truman Safford in 1866.
NGC 7735 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation of Pegasus. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is 9249 ± 36 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 136.41 ± 9.57 Mpc (∼445 million light-years). [1] It was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel on 5 September 1828. [2]
1 Pegasi (1 Peg) is a triple star [10] system in the constellation Pegasus, located approximately 156 light years away from the Sun based on parallax. [1] It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.09. [2] The system is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of − ...
Beta Pegasi (β Pegasi, abbreviated Beta Peg, β Peg), formally named Scheat / ˈ ʃ iː æ t /, [12] [13] is a red giant star and the second-brightest star (after Epsilon Pegasi) in the constellation of Pegasus. It forms the upper right corner of the Great Square of Pegasus, [14] a prominent rectangular asterism.
ι Pegasi, Latinized as Iota Pegasi is a double-lined spectroscopic binary [8] star system located within the northern constellation of Pegasus, along a line between Lambda and Kappa Pegasi. It is visible to the naked eye as a yellow-hued point of light with a combined apparent visual magnitude of 3.77. [2]