The Great Square of Pegasus is a familiar early-autumn asterism, well up in the east as darkness falls and dominating the midnight southern sky. Its unmistakable form is thanks to four quite bright stars, all second to third magnitude, marking the corners of the square. But it's been remarked that within or close to its boundaries there is little to titillate the deep-sky observer. Let's take a tour around the Square and put paid to that misnomer.
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