Arabic star names / Markab
Markab
منكب الفرس
Markab comes from the Arabic منكب الفرس (Mankib al-Faras), which means “the horse's shoulder”. It is the 93rd-brightest star in the sky, in Pegasus.
- Brightness
- 2.49
- Colour
- white
- Constellation
- Pegasus
- Best seen
- October evenings
- Right ascension
- 23h 05m
- Declination
- +15° 12′
The name
One corner of the Great Square of Pegasus.
Where you can see it
It rises everywhere north of 75°S. From Riyadh it climbs to 81° above the horizon. From London it climbs to 54° above the horizon. From Sydney it climbs to 41° above the horizon.
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