IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine (Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg)
Pegasus
The Winged Horse
OriginAncient
AbbreviationPeg
GenitivePegasi
Pronunciation/ˈpɛɡəsəs/ genitive /ˈpɛɡəsaɪ/
PEG-us-us
LocationNorthern Hemisphere
Primary StarEnif (ε Peg)
Right Ascention 21h 44m Declination +9° 52'
Martian Solar Lag δ(🜨→♂) +0.625 h (37.5 min)
Pegasus was the winged-horse that sprang from the blood of Medusa when Perseus cut her head off. He served as Perseus’ steed and helped the hero defeat the sea-monster Cetus to save Princess Andromeda and the country of Aethiopia. Athena took Pegasus to Mount Helicon, the mountain of the muses, where with a single kick of his hoof started the flowing of the famous spring of Hippocrene, said to be the source of all poetic inspiration.
www.underthesky.com
Pegasus as depicted by Johann Bayer in his Uranometria (1603). Source image provided by www.RareMaps.com — Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc. Via www.underthenightsky.com.
←Pegasus 851→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28
1 Pegasus 851 2 Pegasus 851 3 Pegasus 851 4 Pegasus 851 5 Pegasus 851 6 Pegasus 851 7 Pegasus 851 8 Pegasus 851 9 Pegasus 851 10 Pegasus 851 11 Pegasus 851 12 Pegasus 851 13 Pegasus 851 14 Pegasus 851 15 Pegasus 851 16 Pegasus 851 17 Pegasus 851 18 Pegasus 851 19 Pegasus 851 20 Pegasus 851 21 Pegasus 851 22 Pegasus 851 23 Pegasus 851 24 Pegasus 851 25 Pegasus 851 26 Pegasus 851 27 Pegasus 851 28 Pegasus 851 1 Tucana 851 13 January 3213 14 January 3213 15 January 3213 16 January 3213 17 January 3213 18 January 3213 19 January 3213 20 January 3213 21 January 3213 22 January 3213 23 January 3213 24 January 3213 25 January 3213 26 January 3213 27 January 3213 28 January 3213 29 January 3213 30 January 3213 31 January 3213 1 February 3213 2 February 3213 3 February 3213 4 February 3213 5 February 3213 6 February 3213 7 February 3213 8 February 3213 9 February 3213 10 February 3213 11 February 3213
MS 421919 MS 421920 MS 421921 MS 421922 MS 421923 MS 421924 MS 421925 MS 421926 MS 421927 MS 421928 MS 421929 MS 421930 MS 421931 MS 421932 MS 421933 MS 421934 MS 421935 MS 421936 MS 421937 MS 421938 MS 421939 MS 421940 MS 421941 MS 421942 MS 421943 MS 421944 MS 421945 MS 421946 MS 421947 MD 433629 MD 433630 MD 433631 MD 433632 MD 433633 MD 433634 MD 433635 MD 433636 MD 433637 MD 433638 MD 433639 MD 433640 MD 433641 MD 433642 MD 433643 MD 433644 MD 433645 MD 433646 MD 433647 MD 433648 MD 433649 MD 433650 MD 433651 MD 433652 MD 433653 MD 433654 MD 433655 MD 433656 MD 433657 MD 433658