Arabic star names / Scheat
Scheat
الساق
Scheat comes from the Arabic الساق (al-Sāq), which means “the shin”. It is the 88th-brightest star in the sky, in Pegasus.
- Brightness
- 2.44
- Colour
- red-orange
- Constellation
- Pegasus
- Best seen
- October evenings
- Right ascension
- 23h 04m
- Declination
- +28° 05′
The name
A red giant at another corner of the Great Square of Pegasus.
Where you can see it
It rises everywhere north of 62°S. From Riyadh it climbs to 87° above the horizon. From London it climbs to 67° above the horizon. From Sydney it climbs to 28° above the horizon.
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