Pisces Australis

Abbreviation: PsA
Genitive: Piscis Austrini
Right Ascension: 22.29 hours
Declination: -30.66 degrees

Piscis Austrinus, the Southern Fishis completely visible in latitudes South of 53 degrees North from July - September.

Piscis Austrinus is one of the original 48 constellations that appeared in Ptolemy works, it is an ancient constellation. The southern fish are thought to be drinking from the Urn of water being poured out by the nearby Aquarius.

The Arabs seems to share this view, in the naming of the brighest star in the constellation as Formalhut which is arabic was Fum al Hut (Fish Mouth).

Bright Stars | Deep Sky | Other Deep Sky | Variable Stars | Double Stars

Best Known Stars

(Yale Bright Star Catalog)

Common Name or Bayer Number 1	RA	DEC	Magnitude 2
FOMALHAUT	22.00:57.00:39.05	-29.00:37.00:20.10	1.16
EPS PSA	22.00:40.00:39.35	-27.00:2.00:37.04	4.17
BET PSA	22.00:31.00:30.34	-32.00:20.00:45.78	4.29
IOT PSA	21.00:44.00:56.81	-33.00:1.00:32.87	4.34
MU PSA	22.00:8.00:23.01	-32.00:59.00:18.68	4.50
PI PSA	23.00:3.00:29.81	-34.00:44.00:58.04	5.11
LAM PSA	22.00:14.00:18.76	-27.00:46.00:0.92	5.44
6 PSA	21.00:32.00:14.58	-33.00:56.00:40.72	5.97

Deep Sky Objects

(PAS Catalog)

Other Deep Sky Objects

(Saguaro Astronomy Club Catalog)

Only Objects less than 10.0 Mag.

Object	R.A.	Dec.	Object Type 3	Mag.	Uranometria	Tirion

Variable Stars

(General Catalog of Variable Stars)

Only Objects <= 8.0 magnitude

GCVS ID	R.A. (hh mm ss.ss)	Dec. (deg mm ss)	Variable Type 4	Mag. Min	Mag. Max
TT PsA	22.00:0.00:22.70	-31.00:41.00:14.00	LB	7.49	7.00
TW PsA	22.00:53.00:37.40	-31.00:49.00:51.00	BY	6.51	6.44
UU PsA	22.00:1.00:46.40	-27.00:3.00:55.00	BE	5.91	5.86
pi. PsA	23.00:0.00:44.10	-35.00:1.00:13.00	CST:	5.12	5.10

Double Stars

(Saguaro Astronomy Club Catalog)

Only Objects <= 8.0 magnitude

Name	R.A. (hh mm.m)	Dec. (deg mm)	Mag 5	Sep 6	PA 7	Tirion	Uranometria
BU 276	22 00.8	-28 27	5.8, 6.8	1.90	115	23	346/ 383
BETA PSA	22 31.5	-32 21	4.4, 7.9	30.30	172	23	384
DUN 241	22 36.6	-31 39	5.8, 7.6	91.70	31	23	384
H 119	22 39.8	-28 20	6.3, 7.3	86.60	160	23	347/ 348/ 384