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 1093→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
2627
1 Aquila 1093 2 Aquila 1093 3 Aquila 1093 4 Aquila 1093 5 Aquila 1093 6 Aquila 1093 7 Aquila 1093 8 Aquila 1093 9 Aquila 1093 10 Aquila 1093 11 Aquila 1093 12 Aquila 1093 13 Aquila 1093 14 Aquila 1093 15 Aquila 1093 16 Aquila 1093 17 Aquila 1093 18 Aquila 1093 19 Aquila 1093 20 Aquila 1093 21 Aquila 1093 22 Aquila 1093 23 Aquila 1093 24 Aquila 1093 25 Aquila 1093 26 Aquila 1093 27 Aquila 1093 1 Vulpecula 1093 10 December 3667 11 December 3667 12 December 3667 13 December 3667 14 December 3667 15 December 3667 16 December 3667 17 December 3667 18 December 3667 19 December 3667 20 December 3667 21 December 3667 22 December 3667 23 December 3667 24 December 3667 25 December 3667 26 December 3667 27 December 3667 28 December 3667 29 December 3667 30 December 3667 31 December 3667 1 January 3668 2 January 3668 3 January 3668 4 January 3668 5 January 3668 6 January 3668
MS 583579 MS 583580 MS 583581 MS 583582 MS 583583 MS 583584 MS 583585 MS 583586 MS 583587 MS 583588 MS 583589 MS 583590 MS 583591 MS 583592 MS 583593 MS 583594 MS 583595 MS 583596 MS 583597 MS 583598 MS 583599 MS 583600 MS 583601 MS 583602 MS 583603 MS 583604 MS 583605 MS 583606 MD 599780 MD 599781 MD 599782 MD 599783 MD 599784 MD 599785 MD 599786 MD 599787 MD 599788 MD 599789 MD 599790 MD 599791 MD 599792 MD 599793 MD 599794 MD 599795 MD 599796 MD 599797 MD 599798 MD 599799 MD 599800 MD 599801 MD 599802 MD 599803 MD 599804 MD 599805 MD 599806 MD 599807