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 -788→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
27
1 Aquila -788 2 Aquila -788 3 Aquila -788 4 Aquila -788 5 Aquila -788 6 Aquila -788 7 Aquila -788 8 Aquila -788 9 Aquila -788 10 Aquila -788 11 Aquila -788 12 Aquila -788 13 Aquila -788 14 Aquila -788 15 Aquila -788 16 Aquila -788 17 Aquila -788 18 Aquila -788 19 Aquila -788 20 Aquila -788 21 Aquila -788 22 Aquila -788 23 Aquila -788 24 Aquila -788 25 Aquila -788 26 Aquila -788 27 Aquila -788 1 Monoceros -787 14 February 0129 15 February 0129 16 February 0129 17 February 0129 18 February 0129 19 February 0129 20 February 0129 21 February 0129 22 February 0129 23 February 0129 24 February 0129 25 February 0129 26 February 0129 27 February 0129 28 February 0129 1 March 0129 2 March 0129 3 March 0129 4 March 0129 5 March 0129 6 March 0129 7 March 0129 8 March 0129 9 March 0129 10 March 0129 11 March 0129 12 March 0129 13 March 0129 14 March 0129 15 March 0129
MS -674014 MS -674015 MS -674016 MS -674017 MS -674018 MS -674019 MS -674020 MS -674021 MS -674022 MS -674023 MS -674024 MS -674025 MS -674026 MS -674027 MS -674028 MS -674029 MS -674030 MS -674031 MS -674032 MS -674033 MS -674034 MS -674035 MS -674036 MS -674037 MS -674038 MS -674039 MS -674040 MS -673986 MD -692747 MD -692746 MD -692745 MD -692744 MD -692743 MD -692742 MD -692741 MD -692740 MD -692739 MD -692738 MD -692737 MD -692736 MD -692735 MD -692734 MD -692733 MD -692732 MD -692731 MD -692730 MD -692729 MD -692728 MD -692727 MD -692726 MD -692725 MD -692724 MD -692723 MD -692722 MD -692721 MD -692720 MD -692719 MD -692718