IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine (Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg)
Aquila
The Eagle
OriginAncient
AbbreviationAql
GenitiveAquilae
Pronunciation/ˈækwɪlə/ Áquila, occasionally /əˈkwɪlə/ genitive /ˈækwɪliː/
ACK-will-uh/uh-QUILL-uh
LocationCelestial Equator
Primary StarAltair (α Aql)
Right Ascention 19h 51m Declination +8° 52'
Martian Solar Lag δ(🜨→♂) +0.571 h (34.3 min)
In Greek mythology, Aquila was the Aetos Dios, the “Eagle of Zeus”. This magnificent bird was responsible for holding Zeus’s thunderbolts and occasionally running errands. One of these errands was to bring back the beautiful Prince of Troy, Ganymede, to serve as Zeus’s cupbearer.
www.underthesky.com
Aquila (here with the now defunct Antinous) as depicted by Johannes Hevelius in his Firmamentum Sobiescianum sive Uranographia (1687). Source image provided by www.RareMaps.com — Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc. Via www.underthenightsky.com.
←Aquila -319→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
27
1 Aquila -319 2 Aquila -319 3 Aquila -319 4 Aquila -319 5 Aquila -319 6 Aquila -319 7 Aquila -319 8 Aquila -319 9 Aquila -319 10 Aquila -319 11 Aquila -319 12 Aquila -319 13 Aquila -319 14 Aquila -319 15 Aquila -319 16 Aquila -319 17 Aquila -319 18 Aquila -319 19 Aquila -319 20 Aquila -319 21 Aquila -319 22 Aquila -319 23 Aquila -319 24 Aquila -319 25 Aquila -319 26 Aquila -319 27 Aquila -319 1 Monoceros -318 2 July 1011 3 July 1011 4 July 1011 5 July 1011 6 July 1011 7 July 1011 8 July 1011 9 July 1011 10 July 1011 11 July 1011 12 July 1011 13 July 1011 14 July 1011 15 July 1011 16 July 1011 17 July 1011 18 July 1011 19 July 1011 20 July 1011 21 July 1011 22 July 1011 23 July 1011 24 July 1011 25 July 1011 26 July 1011 27 July 1011 28 July 1011 29 July 1011 30 July 1011
MS -360444 MS -360445 MS -360446 MS -360447 MS -360448 MS -360449 MS -360450 MS -360451 MS -360452 MS -360453 MS -360454 MS -360455 MS -360456 MS -360457 MS -360458 MS -360459 MS -360460 MS -360461 MS -360462 MS -360463 MS -360464 MS -360465 MS -360466 MS -360467 MS -360468 MS -360469 MS -360470 MS -360416 MD -370466 MD -370465 MD -370464 MD -370463 MD -370462 MD -370461 MD -370460 MD -370459 MD -370458 MD -370457 MD -370456 MD -370455 MD -370454 MD -370453 MD -370452 MD -370451 MD -370450 MD -370449 MD -370448 MD -370447 MD -370446 MD -370445 MD -370444 MD -370443 MD -370442 MD -370441 MD -370440 MD -370439 MD -370438