ABSTRACT
Pisces is one of the least prominent of the Zodiacal constellations, and has only three stars above the fourth magnitude. There are few objects of note, though Alpha is a good telescopic double; the components are of magnitudes 4.2 and 5.1, and the separation is almost 2 seconds of arc. The little pattern of stars in Pisces made up of Iota, Gamma, Kappa and Lambda is not hard to identify, and close beside it is the N-type variable TX (19) Piscium, one of the reddest of all stars. Aries is regarded as the first constellation of the Zodiac. However, the effects of precession have shifted the vernal equinox out of Aries into Pisces, so that logically it is Pisces which should be regarded as the first constellation of the Zodiac.
