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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.
57 Aquilae (abbreviated 57 Aql) is a double star in the constellation of Aquila. 57 Aquilae is its Flamsteed designation. The primary star has an apparent visual magnitude of 5.70, while the secondary is magnitude 6.48. [2] The pair have an angular separation of 35.624 arcseconds and probably form a wide binary star system. [7]
NGC 6755 is an open cluster of stars in the equatorial constellation of Aquila, positioned about 3° to the east of the star Delta Aquilae. [2] It was discovered by the Anglo-German astronomer William Herschel on July 30, 1785 [5] and is located at a distance of 8,060 light years from the Sun. [1]
NGC 6709 is an open cluster of stars in the equatorial constellation of Aquila, some 5° to the southwest of the star Zeta Aquilae. [4] It is situated toward the center of the galaxy [5] at a distance of 3,510 light-years. [2] This cluster has a Trumpler class of IV 2 m, and is considered moderately rich [5] with 305 [6] member stars.
Zeta Aquilae, or ζ Aquilae, is a binary star [8] system in the equatorial constellation of Aquila. It is readily visible with the naked eye, being of the third magnitude. [2] Based on parallax measurements obtained during the Hipparcos mission, it is approximately 83 light-years (25 parsecs) distant from the Sun. [1]
56 Aquilae is a single [7] star in the equatorial constellation of Aquila. 56 Aquilae is its Flamsteed designation.Its apparent visual magnitude is 5.79, [2] meaning it is barely visible to the naked eye as a dim, orange-hued point of light, under ideal viewing conditions.
Iota Aquilae, Latinized from ι Aquilae, is the Bayer designation for a star in the equatorial constellation of Aquila. It has the traditional name Al Thalimain / æ l ˌ θ æ l ɪ ˈ m eɪ n /, which it shares with λ Aquilae. The name is derived from the Arabic term الظليمین al-ẓalīmayn meaning "The Two Ostriches". [9]
Phi Aquilae, Latinized from φ Aquilae, is the Bayer designation of a binary star [12] system in the equatorial constellation of Aquila. It has an apparent visual magnitude of +5.28 [2] and is visible to the naked eye. With an annual parallax shift of 14.198 mas, [1] this star is located at a distance of approximately 230 light-years (71 ...