Pisces

Also known as Psc, Piscium, Pisces (constellation)

zodiac constellation straddling the celestial equator

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Pisces is a constellation located along the celestial equator, making it visible from both northern and southern hemispheres. It is one of the twelve constellations of the zodiac, which has historically been used in astronomy and astrology to mark the sun's apparent path through the sky.

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Official name: Pisces
Area: 889
Image: PiscesCC.jpg

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short name: Psc
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Pisces is a constellation of the zodiac. Its vast bulk — and main asterism viewed in most European cultures per Greco-Roman antiquity as a distant pair of fishes connected by one cord each that join at an apex — are in the Northern celestial hemisphere. Its traditional astrological symbol is (♓︎). Its name is Latin for "fishes". It is between Aquarius, of similar size, to the southwest and Aries, which is smaller, to the east. The ecliptic and the celestial equator intersect within this constellation, at the first point of Aries, and in Virgo, at the first point of Libra. The Sun passes directly overhead of the equator, on average, at approximately this point in the sky, at the March equinox.

The right ascension/declination 00 is located within the boundaries of Pisces.