I feel sorry for Pegasus

[Stargazer_00]

I was out last night and during my obseration it occured to me that I hadn't been viewing anything in a certain portion of the sky.

I looked it up in my trusty S&T Pocket Sky Atlas back page as Pegasus and moved to the appropriate page, Map 72 I think.

What a boring, barren area of the sky. With only 1 or 2 extremely small and faint galaxies out of my reach this is a real disappointment with telescopic observation. no doubles, no nebula, no globulars, no open clusters, barely any galaxies.

I don't think there is a worse page in the book, I felt mildly sorry for it!

[ronin]

I think that they also decided to allocate one of the corner stars of Pegasus to Andromeda alone, it was shared.

So Pegasus lost a star and I suppose that means the Great Square of Pegasus is no longer strictly a square any more.

[Peter Drew]

Well I look at Pegasus quite often, counting the naked eye stars within the Square is a good indications of the sky conditions, 7 average at home, 35 at Kelling Heath.

[Stargazer_00]

I'll do this next time it's clear It's in the soup at the moment (light pollution is greater at it's current position at 10-11pm). I suspect I can't see any at the moment but I'll give it a go.

[DeepThought]

I know when they took the Hubble deep field image they picked the most barren piece of sky they could find and still found about 3000 distinct galaxies inside 2.5 arcminutes (about the area of sky covered by a tennis ball 100 meters away).

So get yourself a space telescope and I'm sure Pegasus becomes a lot more interesting.

[JamesF]

And there's always the blue snowball.

James

[Stargazer_00]

The snowball isn't on that page of the book, it might be in the constellation. If you have the S&T pocket sky atlas look at that page and tell me you don't feel sorry for Pegasus

[JamesF]

Actually, the Blue Snowball might really be in Andromeda. I always think of it in terms of its position relative to Pegasus though. There is a smattering of galaxies even within the square, but they are all quite faint, it's true. It did get a comet a while back though

James

[Stargazer_00]

It's tragic that something some dominating in the sky contains so little to look at through a terestial telescope at night.

Maybe that's it's charm? It's meant to be viewed with naked eyes dominating the sky where, compared to those around it, it is a titan, a giant, and quite beautiful.

[LukeSkywatcher]

According to everything i read, the blue snowball is indeed in Andromeda.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

NGC 7331 anyone? Marvellous object (Caldwell 10), Messier 15 is also in there, and a couple of other galaxies. NGC 7177 is also rather nice, and often overlooked, and not that faint at mag 11.2. It is quite condensed, and has decent surface brightness

[LukeSkywatcher]

Einstein's Cross in Pegasus looks very interesting. I'll have to check that out.

[Stargazer_00]

M15 is indeed beautiful but it's on the opposite page in S&T PA to the one I'm referring to I guess that's specifically what I'm referring to rather than the entire constellation which is bigger than the page. I feel sorry for that page in the book perhaps!