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 -596→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
27
1 Aquila -596 2 Aquila -596 3 Aquila -596 4 Aquila -596 5 Aquila -596 6 Aquila -596 7 Aquila -596 8 Aquila -596 9 Aquila -596 10 Aquila -596 11 Aquila -596 12 Aquila -596 13 Aquila -596 14 Aquila -596 15 Aquila -596 16 Aquila -596 17 Aquila -596 18 Aquila -596 19 Aquila -596 20 Aquila -596 21 Aquila -596 22 Aquila -596 23 Aquila -596 24 Aquila -596 25 Aquila -596 26 Aquila -596 27 Aquila -596 1 Monoceros -595 7 May 0490 8 May 0490 9 May 0490 10 May 0490 11 May 0490 12 May 0490 13 May 0490 14 May 0490 15 May 0490 16 May 0490 17 May 0490 18 May 0490 19 May 0490 20 May 0490 21 May 0490 22 May 0490 23 May 0490 24 May 0490 25 May 0490 26 May 0490 27 May 0490 28 May 0490 29 May 0490 30 May 0490 31 May 0490 1 June 0490 2 June 0490 3 June 0490 4 June 0490 5 June 0490
MS -545645 MS -545646 MS -545647 MS -545648 MS -545649 MS -545650 MS -545651 MS -545652 MS -545653 MS -545654 MS -545655 MS -545656 MS -545657 MS -545658 MS -545659 MS -545660 MS -545661 MS -545662 MS -545663 MS -545664 MS -545665 MS -545666 MS -545667 MS -545668 MS -545669 MS -545670 MS -545671 MS -545617 MD -560812 MD -560811 MD -560810 MD -560809 MD -560808 MD -560807 MD -560806 MD -560805 MD -560804 MD -560803 MD -560802 MD -560801 MD -560800 MD -560799 MD -560798 MD -560797 MD -560796 MD -560795 MD -560794 MD -560793 MD -560792 MD -560791 MD -560790 MD -560789 MD -560788 MD -560787 MD -560786 MD -560785 MD -560784 MD -560783