Constellations
Aquila (Aql)
The Eagle
Also known as eagle.
6 looks for Aquila
The constellation in a clear night sky over the hills: its lines draw themselves one on every beat, its real stars twinkle with the part of the song their colour answers, the Milky Way glows and a shooting star crosses on the big moments.
About Aquila
- What it is
- One of the IAU's constellations: The Eagle
- IAU abbreviation
- Aql
- Its stars are named
- Aquilae (as in "Alpha Aquilae")
- Family
- Hercules family
- Where
- Along the celestial equator: seen from both hemispheres
- Highest in the sky
- At about 9 pm in September
- Centre
- Right ascension 19h 39m, declination +4° 47′
- The figure
- 8 stars joined by 9 lines
- Brightest star
- Altair, magnitude 0.77
Star patterns in it: Summer Triangle.
Its stars
Brightest first. A smaller magnitude is a brighter star; the visualizer sizes and colours each one by these.
- Altair (α Aql)mag 0.77
- Tarazed (γ Aql)mag 2.72
- Okab (ζ Aql)mag 2.99
- θ Aqlmag 3.23
- Almizan (δ Aql)mag 3.36
- Al Thalimain Prior (λ Aql)mag 3.44
- Alshain (β Aql)mag 3.71
- η Aqlmag 3.90
Every star's place, brightness and colour is the Yale Bright Star Catalogue's; the figure is the IAU's, through d3-celestial (credited on the licences page). Constellations template · Every constellation