Scheat
A semiregular variable red giant, visible as a second-magnitude orange-red star in the northern constellation of Pegasus, one of four stars in the asterism of the Great Square of Pegasus.
Proper noun
- A semiregular variable red giant, visible as a second-magnitude orange-red star in the northern constellation of Pegasus, one of four stars in the asterism of the Great Square of Pegasus.
- [This is the Scheat of Tycho, the Palermo Catalogue, and modern lists generally, either from Al Sā'id the Upper Part of the Arm, or, as Hyde suggested, from the early Sa'd appearing in the subsequent three pairs of...
Origin
From Arabic السَاعِد (as-sāʕid, literally “the forearm”).