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  Enif
Fom derives from the Arabic Fum al Faras, "The Horse's Mouth." Os Pegasi is a Latin translation of this phrase.
The diameter of the star would be maybe 300 times the diameter of the sun, so that the earth would be engulfed by the star, if we had Enif at the center of the solar system instead of our sun.
Burnham estimates the mass of the star as 10 solar masses.
domeofthesky.com /clicks/enif.html   (126 words)

  
  Enif - Definition, explanation
Enif likely only has a few million years left to go, although it is unknown whether it will explode in a supernova or simply die off as a white dwarf, due to its mass straddling the dividing line between stars destined to explode or not.
Enif has been observed to brighten radically upon a few occasions, giving rise to the theory that it (and possibly other supergiants) erupt in mssive flares that dwarf those of our own Sun.
The word "Enif" is derived from the Arabic word for "nose", due to its position as the muzzle of Pegasus.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/e/en/enif.php   (236 words)

  
  Epsilon Pegasi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Enif, Enf, Enir, Al Anf, Os Pegasi, Fom, 8 Peg, HR 8308, BD +09°4891, HD 206778, SAO 127029, FK5 815, HIP 107315.
Enif likely only has a few million years left to go, although it is unknown whether it will explode in a supernova or simply die off as a white dwarf, due to its mass straddling the dividing line between stars destined to explode or not.
Enif has been observed to brighten radically upon a few occasions, giving rise to the theory that it (and possibly other supergiants) erupt in massive flares that dwarf those of our own Sun.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Enif   (216 words)

  
 Enif - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Enif is the proper name of the star ε Pegasi in the Pegasus constellation.
Enif has been observed to brighten radically upon a few occasions, giving rise to the theory that it (and possibly other supergiants) erupt in mssive flares that dwarf those of our own Sun.
The word "Enif" is derived from the Arabic word for "nose", due to its position as the muzzle of Pegasus.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Enif   (235 words)

  
 Enif - The Basic Concepts
This means that Enif must be able to run both under the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems as well as under the various flavors of Unix supported by EMME/2.
The basic design of Enif is shown in Figure 1 in the form of a block diagram.
The graphical interface part of Enif is depicted on the right hand side of Figure 1.
www.inro.ca /en/pres_pap/papers/enifpaper/node3.html   (0 words)

  
 Enif
The star Enif (Scientific Name Epsilon Pegasi) is located at right ascension 21h 44.187m and declination 9° 52.500'.
Enif is a relatively bright star with a magnitude of 2.39.
It has an Hd number of 206778, an FK5 number of 815, and a SAO number of 127029.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /stars/enif.htm   (55 words)

  
 The Ultimate Enif - American History Information Guide and Reference
Enif likely only has a few million years left to go, although it is unknown whether it will explode in a supernova or simply die off as a white dwarf, due to its mass straddling the dividing line between stars destined to explode or not.
Enif has been observed to brighten radically upon a few occasions, giving rise to the theory that it (and possibly other supergiants) erupt in mssive flares that dwarf those of our own Sun.
The word "Enif" is derived from the Arabic word for "nose", due to its position as the muzzle of Pegasus.
www.historymania.com /american_history/Enif   (160 words)

  
 ENIF   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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Enif is the brightest by cheating a bit, as it is rather roundly trounced by Alpheratz.
Physically, Enif is a coolish, orange class K supergiant with a temperature of 4460 Kelvin.
erectus.org /namedstars/enif.html   (503 words)

  
 Enif Prefecture-Perseus Middle Region
The Enif Prefecture was an area of thirty or more major solar systems and thousands of habitats in the middle region of the Solar Dominion expansion into Pegasus, an area contested with the Metasoft Droid Empire.
More than twenty worlds in the Enif prefecture suffered memetic subversion of their robot workers by Metasoft in the period prior to, and during the Version War, when the peculiar cult of "death" in the Enif prefecture allowed a unique form of invasion.
Enif is now a frontier system between aioid and bioid, but the old prefecture is still a politically sensitive and volatile area.
www.orionsarm.com /galactography/Enif_Prefecture.html   (0 words)

  
 Enif (Epsilon Pegasi)
Enif is an orange supergiant K star, big enough, if put in place of the Sun, to stretch halfway to the orbit of Venus.
Most odd about Enif is its possible erratic and violent behavior.
In 1972, an observer in Florida reported Enif to be as bright as Altair – five times brighter than normal – after which it faded.
www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/E/Enif.html   (273 words)

  
 Messier Road Maps: Predawn--Cousin Ricky's Amateur Astronomy
Enif is at the same declination as γ Equ and δ Equ; this makes the line between the triangle and M15 parallel to the line between γ Equ, δ Equ, and Enif.
Notice that the distance between Enif and α Aqr, the distance between α Equ and β Aqr, and the distance between β Aqr and Deneb Algedi are almost exactly the same.
Halfway between Enif and β Aqr is a small isosceles triangle of stars between magnitudes 5 and 5½.
cac.uvi.edu /staff/rc3/astro/mroadmap9.html   (1551 words)

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