Eta Piscium is the second brightest star in Pisces with a visual magnitude of 3.8. However the combined magnitude of the two components of this binary system make the apparent brightness 3.6, which just beats out gamma Piscium (3.7).

This yellow giant is 15º northwest of alpha and easily found with the naked eye. In the same region is the very faint spiral galaxy M74 (one of the faintest of Messier's objects): binoculars.

The ‘fish’ continues to the northwest, past rho and on up to sigma.