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 1220→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
2627
1 Aquila 1220 2 Aquila 1220 3 Aquila 1220 4 Aquila 1220 5 Aquila 1220 6 Aquila 1220 7 Aquila 1220 8 Aquila 1220 9 Aquila 1220 10 Aquila 1220 11 Aquila 1220 12 Aquila 1220 13 Aquila 1220 14 Aquila 1220 15 Aquila 1220 16 Aquila 1220 17 Aquila 1220 18 Aquila 1220 19 Aquila 1220 20 Aquila 1220 21 Aquila 1220 22 Aquila 1220 23 Aquila 1220 24 Aquila 1220 25 Aquila 1220 26 Aquila 1220 27 Aquila 1220 1 Vulpecula 1220 16 November 3906 17 November 3906 18 November 3906 19 November 3906 20 November 3906 21 November 3906 22 November 3906 23 November 3906 24 November 3906 25 November 3906 26 November 3906 27 November 3906 28 November 3906 29 November 3906 30 November 3906 1 December 3906 2 December 3906 3 December 3906 4 December 3906 5 December 3906 6 December 3906 7 December 3906 8 December 3906 9 December 3906 10 December 3906 11 December 3906 12 December 3906 13 December 3906 14 December 3906
MS 668489 MS 668490 MS 668491 MS 668492 MS 668493 MS 668494 MS 668495 MS 668496 MS 668497 MS 668498 MS 668499 MS 668500 MS 668501 MS 668502 MS 668503 MS 668504 MS 668505 MS 668506 MS 668507 MS 668508 MS 668509 MS 668510 MS 668511 MS 668512 MS 668513 MS 668514 MS 668515 MS 668516 MD 687048 MD 687049 MD 687050 MD 687051 MD 687052 MD 687053 MD 687054 MD 687055 MD 687056 MD 687057 MD 687058 MD 687059 MD 687060 MD 687061 MD 687062 MD 687063 MD 687064 MD 687065 MD 687066 MD 687067 MD 687068 MD 687069 MD 687070 MD 687071 MD 687072 MD 687073 MD 687074 MD 687075 MD 687076