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[6281] gamma Pegasi, or Algenib ("the side") is a Beta Cephei type variable approximately 335 light-years distant. It is a hot blue star, 4,000 times more luminous than the Sun, with an apparent magnitude of 2.83.
It lies in the northwestern corner (0:39:21.8+21:15:1.7, ICRS 2000.0) of Constellation Pisces -- northeast of Algenib (Gamma Pegasi), southeast of Alpheratz (Alpha Andromedae), southwest of Delta Andromedae and Mirach (Beta Andromedae), ...
(The other star is Elnath, Beta Tauri, which links Taurus to Auriga and is also called Gamma Aurigae.) If you draw a line through Alpheratz and Algenib, Gamma Pegasi to the south, it will pass just to the east of the vernal equinox in Pisces.
Very faint, pretty small, round. This relatively large galaxy is just over a degree north-west of Gamma Pegasi. Because of its low surface brightness I would recommend attempting this galaxy with a 12-inch telescope.
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The remaining three stars of the Square are Alpha Pegasi, also known as Markab from the Arabic for ‘shoulder'; Beta Pegasi, called Scheat from the Arabic meaning ‘the shin'; and Gamma Pegasi, or Algenib, meaning ‘ ...
 See also: Alpha Andromedae, Andromeda, Pegasus, Constellation, Algenib
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