Alpha Piscis Austrini, whom the Persians knew as Hastorang, the Watcher of the South and the Monarch of Winter, better known to the western world as Fomalhaut. A single-star system, Fomalhaut is represented by a snowy leopard-like chimera with impressive branching antlers. The silver scaling in the background is an allusion to the star's notable debris disc. It is the second of the Royal Stars, the others being Regulus (second in this batch), Aldebaran and Antares (still to come).

Fomalhaut is a cool white main sequence star with a spectral type of A3V.

Oil paints and silver leaf on 6"x6" gessobord. Third in a batch of 6 Astral Chimera. Went to the FC art show but was not purchased. Will be going to the AC art show next, unless someone CANNOT WAIT in which case they are perfectly welcome to send me a note and we can talk pricing options.