Last week’s weather was not conducive to star gazing so in this StarDate Susitna, Kathleen explores other topics of interest to night-sky observers such as the apparent size of the moon and the constellation Pegasus.
Image is Fred Espenak’s, from AstroPixels.com.
The star is at the edge of naked-eye visibility, but it can easily be spotted through ordinary binoculars.
This chart is from the Wikipedia article, “51 Pegasi b”.
