PEGASUS
Pegasus, the winged horse, is a rather faint constellation with no first magnitude star. It's claim to fame is the Great Square, which although bounded by just second magnitude stars, is quite conspicuous. As far as deep sky objects go, the most obvious and indeed brightest is the globular cluster M15, found in the extreme West of the constellation and a magnificent sight in binoculars or a small 'scope. Turning to spiral galaxies, NGC7331 is a superb Sbc Spiral galaxy, similar to our Milky Way galaxy and and the Great Spiral M31 is Andromeda. It is a good size, 11.4' x 4' and at magnitude 9.5, it is clearly visible in small 'scopes as an elongated fuzzy blob. See ngc7331 in a wider field of view here. Just to the SW is a group of 5 galaxies named Stephan's Quintet. The brightest, NGC7320, is visible in moderate amateur scopes, but large scopes are needed to resolve all five. Further south lies NGC7332, one of a pair of edge-on galaxies with NGC7339. NGC7332 is actually an E7 galaxy showing no real structure. It is of magnitude 11.1 and of size 3.6' x 0.9'. Another galaxy worth a look is the barred spiral NGC7479 in the south of the constellation. Another fairly bright galaxy, NGC7814, lies in the SE of the constellation. Finally a really tough one for large scopes is the local dwarf galaxy UGC12613.
