Sagitta

Sagitta is a Northern Hemisphere constellation otherwise known as the Arrow. It is one of the 48 Greek constellations originally described by the 2nd century astronomer Claudius Ptolemy (Wikipedia). Sagitta remains one of the 88 modern constellations defined by the International Astronomical Union (Wikipedia).

Sagitta (abbrev. = Sge; genitive = Sagittae) covers 80 square degrees or 0.19% of the celestial sphere making it the 86th largest constellation. It contains 26 stars brighter than apparent magnitude 6.5, the brightest star being Gamma Sagittae.

For more information see the entries for Sagitta at Wikipedia and U. Wisconsin. For a chart of Sagitta, see Sge (IAU).


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