Friday, September 16, 2011

What is the longitude and latitude of the constellation Pegasus?

I really don't have any detail to add because the question says it all.|||Constellations do not have lat and long, but they have something similar...





Right Ascension and Declination








for Pegausus:





R.A.: 23h.11m.


Dec: 10潞47'|||Objects in the sky don't have a longitude and latitude. Their positions are defined by the celestial coordinate system: right ascension and declination. Pegasus is a large constellation, so covers a right ascension from 21 h to 0 h and a declination from 2掳N to 36掳N.|||Longitude and latitude? No such things in astronomy. They use a celestial system of coordinates. For the constellation Pegasus, it's:right ascension 23 h; declination +20掳.|||The square extends (approximately) between


RA : 23 hrs to 0 (or 24)hrs,


Decl.: +16掳 to +29掳.


The center is


RA/Decl. = 23hrs 30 mnts / +22.5掳.|||http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(co鈥?/a>





I don't really need to add any detail to the answer - what you need is all there.|||longitude and latitude are Earth-based coordinates, Pegasus is in the sky.

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