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Aquarius is an equatorial constellation of the zodiac, between Capricornus and Pisces. Its name is Latin for "water-carrier" or "cup-carrier", and its old astronomical symbol is (♒︎), a representation of water. Aquarius is one of the oldest of the recognized constellations along the zodiac (the Sun's apparent path). [2]
[15] [16] The star is eclipsed by the sun from about 1-4 March; [17] thus the star can be viewed the whole night, crossing the sky, in early September, in the current epoch. Lambda Aquarii is located at a distance of 365 light-years (112 pc ) from the Sun based on parallax , [ 1 ] but is drifting closer with a radial velocity of −10.5 km/s.
Zeta Aquarii (ζ Aquarii, ζ Aqr) is the Bayer designation for a triple star system, [7] the central star of the "water jar" asterism [9] in the equatorial constellation of Aquarius. The combined apparent visual magnitude of this system is 3.65, [ 2 ] which is readily visible to the naked eye.
The star has 2.7 [7] times the mass of the Sun and double the Sun's radius. [8] It is radiating 63.5 [ 7 ] times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 10,617 K. [ 7 ] When examined in the infrared band, it displays an excess emission that is a characteristic of stars with an orbiting debris disk .
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Kappa Aquarii (κ Aquarii, abbreviated Kappa Aqr, κ Aqr) is a probable binary star in the equatorial constellation of Aquarius. This system is visible to the naked eye, but it is faint at an apparent magnitude of 5.03. [2] Based upon parallax measurements made during the Hipparcos mission, it is around 214 light-years (66 parsecs) from the Sun ...
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Mu Aquarii, Latinized from μ Aquarii, is the Bayer designation for a binary star [10] system in the equatorial constellation of Aquarius. It is visible to the naked eye with a combined apparent visual magnitude of 4.7. [2] Based upon parallax measurements, the distance to this system is about 157 light-years (48 parsecs). [1]