Where can I get a picture of 51 Pegasi ?
This image was obtained as follows: You can download a picture of 51 Pegasi from the Palomar Digital Sky Survey archive by entering ’51 Peg’ in the OBJECT NAME window. Alternately, you can enter its Right Ascension and Declination coordinates if you know them. Click on GET COORDINATES bar and after a few seconds it will refresh the screen with the coordinate information for the star. Skip down to the RETRIEVE IMAGE area and under FILE FORMAT click the down arrow to bring up the two options. Click on GIF, then click on the box that says SAVE TO DISK. An ‘X’ in this box will save the GIF image to your local disk file. Finally click on the RETRIEVE IMAGE bar. In a miniute or so, the DSS routine will deliver to you a GIF image covering a 15 x 15 arcminute field centered on the star. It will also bring up a window where you choose a name for this image on your harddrive. The file will be about 150 – 200 kilobytes in size. You will see a bright star in the center of the field. That’s 51 Pega
