Homam

Its story

Homam is a hot blue star on the neck of Pegasus, its name drawn from an Arabic phrase associated with «the lucky horse». At 204 light-years, its blue-white light reaches us from a century when constellations were still learned from handwritten almanacs. Modest but unmistakable, it serves as a hinge between the great rectangle of Pegasus and the fainter stars marking the horse's head.