Omi

Its story

Omicron Pegasi peers out between the legs of the winged horse, near the celebrated Great Square of Pegasus that dominates the autumn skies. It is a white A-type star 299 light-years away, young and clear, whose brilliance helps trace the silhouette of the mythic steed that bore Bellerophon on its back. Its light takes almost three centuries to reach Earth: what we see tonight set out when Bach was composing his first cantatas in Leipzig.