Star profile
Omega Piscium
What is Omega Piscium
Omega Piscium marks the point where the celestial cord ties together the two fishes of the constellation, exactly where the old iconography places the knot that binds them. It is a yellow-white subgiant, slightly hotter than the Sun and roughly twenty-two times more luminous, drifting toward the end of its maturity. Its light set out a little over a century ago, around 1920, before crossing 104 light years to meet our eyes.
Where it is and when to see it
Omega Piscium lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is September: the Sun sits at the opposite point of the sky and the star culminates around midnight. How high it climbs above the horizon depends on the latitude you watch from.
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Astronomical data for Omega Piscium
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.03
- Distance
- 104.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 359.828° · Dec 6.863°
- Catalogue
- HIP 118268 · HD 224617
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Other stars in Pisces
Pisces has 79 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- AlphergEta Piscium3.62
- Gamma Piscium3.70
- AlreschaAlpha Piscium3.82
- Iota Piscium4.13
- TorcularOmicron Piscium4.26
- Theta Piscium4.27
- Epsilon Piscium4.27
- 30 Piscium4.37