Piscis Australis, the Southern Fish
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worship in the temple of Demeter at Eleusis. With astrologers it portended eminence, fortune, and power. Its position in the heavens has been determined with the greatest possible accuracy to enable navigators to find their longitude at sea, and it appears in the Ephemerides of all modern sea-going nations. It culminates at 9 p.m., on the 25th of October.
Fomalhaut is reddish in colour, and distant from the earth about twenty-one light years. So far as is known it has no companion. By one authority this star was thought to be the Central Sun of the Universe, and according to Allen no other star seems to have had so varied an orthography.
