Saturday, September 10, 2011

How High is the constellation pegasus?

Ok i need to know how high off the horizon the constellation pegasus is, in the Northern hemisphere. Please don't give it in ascension and Declination, i don't know how to use them!! I have been searching and i can't find it anywhere.|||It depends on from where you are looking and when you are looking, there is a fairly simple to use star map on a website called heavens above, I use that all the time for all kinds of astronomical stuff...


http://www.heavens-above.com/|||Your probably can't find it anywhere because it varies depending on the time of day and the time of the year.





There is no enough information in your question to give an answer.|||Now, you can see it, not too high from the horizon, just above the ecliptic (the imaginary line where the moon, sun and all the planet usually pass)





I presume you are somewhere on the same latitude of New York City. which then you will be able to see Pegasus on the east around 3 AM, just when the sun about to rise. Just see your east, and just above the horizon you'll see 4 stars (called the Pegasus square, which is actually 3 stars of Pegasus + 1 star of Androeda (her head, the left-est star of the 4 stars)). I hope there is no big skyscraper around the east, as it lies pretty close to the horizon.





If you live lower in latitude than NYC (closer to the equator, Pegasus will be higher in the sky and thus more easy to see.)|||Because the Earth rotates and moves around the Sun in its orbit, the answer is changing constantly. You must specify your location and the date and time to let us give an answer. That is why right ascension (not "ascension") and declination are used, as they specify true directions in space, rather than altitude and azimuth, which are dependent on date, time, and location.

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