Constellation Chart

The Fishes

Pisces seems to be one of the oldest constellations in the sky. The ancient Syrians saw this region as representing two fishes bound by a cord, one fleeing toward the western horizon and one fleeing northward. This peculiar image was adopted by the Egyptians, who saw the fish as swimming from Set, the evil brother of Osiris. The Greeks adapted the story again - for them, one fish was Aphrodite, the other her son Eros, and both were escaping the giant Typhon.

Galaxy In Pisces

M74 (NGC628)

M74 (NGC628) is only Messier's object in the constellation of Pisces. You can find that at about 1 degree east of eta Piscium. The galaxy has a size of 10 arc minutes and about 10th magnitude, it's a very faint spiral galaxy being face on, one of the faintest in Messier's catalogue. It's fairly difficult work to recognize the galaxy with a medium-sized telescope unless you have extremely good-conditioned night. Long exposure photographs show two loosely-wound spirals out from a tiny bright nucleus. The galaxy is 31 million light years away.

NGC524

NGC524 is a small lenticular galaxy positioned around midway of two fishes of the constellation of Pisces. It has a circular form with a diameter of less than 3 arc minutes. We can detect a bright central bulge through telescopes. This star field around NGC524 contains ten or more small, but comparatively easy-to-see galaxies. They're forming a small scaled galaxy group in real space. NGC524 is a principal member of this group; this image shows you some other member galaxies.

NGC 664

Long ago in a galaxy far, far away, locked in their final desperate struggle against the force of gravity ... two stars exploded! stellar explosions - Supernovae - are among the most powerful events in the Universe, estimated to release an equivalent energy of up to 1 million trillion trillion (1 followed by 30 zeros) megatons of TNT. After the explosion, an expanding supernova envelope is observed to brighten over a a period of days to a maximum light output which rivals that of an entire galaxy before fading from view over the following months. Triggered by the collapsing core of a massive star or the nuclear demise of a white dwarf supernovae occur in average spiral galaxies only about once every 25-100 years. But a recent observation of NGC 664, a spiral galaxy about 300 million light years distant, captured a rare and colorful performance - two supernovae from the same galaxy. In this monitoring exposure the two supernovae, one reddish yellow and one blue, form a close pair just below the image center (to the right of the galaxy nucleus). The color difference is due to temperature - blue is hotter.

Mg 0024 + 1654

Remarks on the picture: Mg 0024 + 1654 This picture of the Hubble Weltraumteleskops of the 14.Oktober 1994, shows a galaxy cluster in the constellation of fish. The main group of the galaxies in the center of the picture is 5 billion light-years far away from the earth. Covered behind this main group, in 10 billion light-years distance a further galaxy, which produces straight very many young stars and contains therefore very many points from blue shining hydrogen, is. Eigendlich would not be visible this galaxy. It appears equivalent several times nevertheless in the picture. The reason for this is because of what one calls a gravitation lens. Already Einstein pointed 1936 to the possibility of such lenses without ever one to have seen. Now its statement with this and other pictures is occupied. The light of the galaxy, which by-radiates right, left, above and down at the lying in front of it galaxy cluster, would not meet and would be invisible our eye normally thereby. The strong gravitation forces of the galaxies of the heap, divert it however from its straight direction of propagation and bend the rays of light in the direction of our eyes or better into the objective of the camera of the Hubble of space telescope. Since that happens several times, the galaxy appears also repeated in the picture. The picture is thus a outstanding demonstration its that called Einstein the curvature of the area.

Planetary Destinations In Pisces

109 Piscium (G5 IV)

Parent Star: 109 Piscium (G5 IV) in the constellation of pisces is located at a distance of 97.84 light years s from our solar system Co-ordinates of Right Ascension: 01 44 55.8246 & Declination: +20 04 59.338. The apparent magnitude of the star is 6.292. The Inner Edge of Habitability Zone is 0.92 AU & the Outer Edge of Habitability Zone: 2.88 AU. Orbiting around 109 Piscium is planet 109 Piscium b the planet is believed to be a water cloud jovian and its exitence has been confirmed. The Planets Appearance is white water ice clouds. The planet is positioned inside the habitability zone at mean orbital distance of 2.13 AU The planet Orbits around the star every 1077.906 days and was discovered by Marcy et al , in 1999 .

54 Piscium (K0 V)

Parent Star: 54 Piscium (K0 V ) in the constellation of pisces is located at a distance of 35.87 light years s from our solar system Co-ordinates of Right Ascension: 00 39 21.8061 & Declination: +21 15 01.701. The apparent magnitude of the star is 5.8. The Inner Edge of Habitability Zone is 0.37 AU & the Outer Edge of Habitability Zone: 1.16 AU. Orbiting around 54 Piscium is planet 54 Pisciumb the planet is believed to be a clarified jovian, eccentric and its exitence has been confirmed. The Planets Appearance is blue and cloudless. The planet is positioned outside the habitability zone at mean orbital distance of 0.284 AU The planet Orbits around the star every 62.23 Days and was discovered by FISCHER D., BUTLER P., MARCY G., VOGT S. & HENRY G, in 2003.

HD 216770 (K1V)

Parent Star: HD 216770 (K1V) in the constellation of pisces is located at a distance of 123.94 Light Years from our Solar system Co-ordinates of Right Ascension: 22 55 53.7097 & Declination: -26 39 31.547. The apparent magnitude of the star is 8.1. The Inner Edge of Habitability Zone is 0.45 AU & the Outer Edge of Habitability Zone: 1.41 AU. Orbiting around HD 216770 is planet HD 216770 b the planet is believed to be a clarified jovian, eccentric and its exitence has been confirmed. The Planets Appearance is blue and cloudless. The planet is positioned at the inner edge of the habitability zone at mean orbital distance of 0.46 AU. The planet Orbits around the star every 118.45 + 0.4 Days and was discovered by MAYOR M. et al , in 2003.

HD 217107 (G8 IV)

Parent Star: HD 217107 (G8 IV) in the constellation of pisces is located at a distance of 120.7 light years from our solar system Co-ordinates of Right Ascension: 22 58 15.45 & Declination: -02 23 42.4 . The apparent magnitude of the star is 6.16. The Inner Edge of Habitability Zone is 0.61 AU & the Outer Edge of Habitability Zone: 1.9 AU and the estimated stellar lifespan of the star is 10624 million years . Orbiting around HD 217107 are planet HD 217107 b , HD 217107 c

HD 217107 b the planet is believed to be a dark hot jupiter and its existence has been confirmed. The planets appearance is dark sodium haze. The planet is positioned at the outside of Habitability Zone at Mean Orbital Distance of 0.08 AU. The planet Orbits around the star every 7.1269 + 0.00022 Days and was discovered by Marcy etal in 1998.

HD 217107 c the planet is believed to be a ammonia cloud jovian, eccentric and its existence has been confirmed. The planets appearance is white ammonia and water ice clouds, brown hydrocarbon stains . The planets orbital distance of 4.3 + 2 AU. The planet Orbits around the star every 3150 + 1000 Days and was discovered by Marcy et al in 1999.

HD 8574 (F8 V)

Parent Star: HD 8574 (F8 V) in the constellation of pisces is located at a distance of 144 Light Years from our Solar system Co-ordinates of Right Ascension: 1 25 12.5168 & Declination: 28 34 00.096. The apparent magnitude of the star is 7.8. The Inner Edge of Habitability Zone is 0.72 AU & the Outer Edge of Habitability Zone: 2.25 AU. Orbiting around HD 8574 is planet HD 8574 b the planet is believed to be a sulfurous cloud jovian, eccentric and its exitence has been confirmed. The Planets Appearance is sulfur stained clouds of water or H2SO4 . The planet is positioned at the inner edge of Habitable Zone at Mean Orbital Distance of 0.76 AU. The planet Orbits around the star every 228.8 + 0.84 Days and was discovered by Michel Mayor, Dominique Naef, Francesco Pepe, Didier Queloz, Nuno C. Santos, Stephane Udry, Michel Burnet in 2001.