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| name | created_by | created_date | updated_by | updated_date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pegasus | skybber | 2021-07-11 10:23:32.523906 | skybber | 2021-07-11 10:23:32.524119 |
A large constellation of the northern sky, lying outside the Milky Way in a star-poor region north of Aquarius and adjacent to Andromeda. Although the constellation lies next to the Milky Way, and in a relatively star-poor region, it is particularly notable for the so-called Great Square of Pegasus, which lies at the elongated junction of the rear wheels of the Big Dipper with Polaris and contains no stars brighter than 4th magnitude. It is made up of the stars Scheat, Markab, Algenib, and Sirrah of Andromeda, but which was also once part of Pegasus. At first glance, all four stars are approximately the same stellar size. Of the deepsky objects, the globular cluster M15 and the spiral galaxy NGC 7331, near which the popular Stéphane Quintet lies, are the best known. Other galaxies, which make up the majority of the constellation's objects, are faint and require dark skies and larger telescopes to become interesting in the field of view.
