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Aquila is a constellation on the celestial equator. Its name is Latin for 'eagle' and it represents the bird that carried Zeus/Jupiter's thunderbolts in Greek-Roman mythology. Its brightest star, Altair, is one vertex of the Summer Triangle asterism. The constellation is best seen in the northern summer, as it is located along the Milky Way.
Altair is the brightest star in the constellation Aquila. α Aquilae (Latinised to Alpha Aquilae) is the star's Bayer designation. The traditional name Altair has been used since medieval times. It is an abbreviation of the Arabic phrase النسر الطائر Al-Nisr Al-Ṭa'ir, "the flying eagle ". [21]
Zeus and an eagle, krater (c. 560 BC), now in the Louvre Ptolemaic tetradrachm with the Eagle of Zeus, standing on a thunderbolt, on the obverse The Eagle of Zeus (Ancient Greek: ἀετός Διός, romanized: aetos Dios) was one of the chief attributes and personifications of Zeus, the head of the Olympian pantheon.
This is the list of 143 notable stars in the constellation Aquila, sorted by decreasing brightness. Name B F G. Var HD HIP RA Dec vis. mag. abs. mag. Dist. Sp. class ...
Beta Aquilae, Latinized from β Aquilae, is a triple star [12] system in the equatorial constellation of Aquila.It is visible to the naked eye as a point-like source with an apparent visual magnitude of 3.87. [2]
The Perseus Family includes several constellations associated with the Perseus myth: Cassiopeia, Cepheus, Andromeda, Perseus, Pegasus, and Cetus (representing the monster sent to devour Andromeda). Menzel also included a few neighboring constellations: Auriga, Lacerta, and Triangulum. Except for Cetus, these constellations all lie north of the ...
Delta Aquilae, Latinized from δ Aquilae, is a binary star system in the equatorial constellation of Aquila. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 3.4 [2] and, based upon parallax measurements, is located at a distance of about 50.6 light-years (15.5 parsecs) from Earth. [1] It is drifting closer with a radial velocity of −30 km/s. [6]
Xi Aquilae (ξ Aquilae, abbreviated Xi Aql, ξ Aql), officially named Libertas / ˈ l ɪ b ər t æ s /, [10] is a red-clump giant star located at a distance of 186 light-years (57 parsecs) from the Sun in the equatorial constellation of Aquila.