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 1376→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
252627
1 Aquila 1376 2 Aquila 1376 3 Aquila 1376 4 Aquila 1376 5 Aquila 1376 6 Aquila 1376 7 Aquila 1376 8 Aquila 1376 9 Aquila 1376 10 Aquila 1376 11 Aquila 1376 12 Aquila 1376 13 Aquila 1376 14 Aquila 1376 15 Aquila 1376 16 Aquila 1376 17 Aquila 1376 18 Aquila 1376 19 Aquila 1376 20 Aquila 1376 21 Aquila 1376 22 Aquila 1376 23 Aquila 1376 24 Aquila 1376 25 Aquila 1376 26 Aquila 1376 27 Aquila 1376 1 Vulpecula 1376 16 May 4200 17 May 4200 18 May 4200 19 May 4200 20 May 4200 21 May 4200 22 May 4200 23 May 4200 24 May 4200 25 May 4200 26 May 4200 27 May 4200 28 May 4200 29 May 4200 30 May 4200 31 May 4200 1 June 4200 2 June 4200 3 June 4200 4 June 4200 5 June 4200 6 June 4200 7 June 4200 8 June 4200 9 June 4200 10 June 4200 11 June 4200 12 June 4200 13 June 4200
MS 772790 MS 772791 MS 772792 MS 772793 MS 772794 MS 772795 MS 772796 MS 772797 MS 772798 MS 772799 MS 772800 MS 772801 MS 772802 MS 772803 MS 772804 MS 772805 MS 772806 MS 772807 MS 772808 MS 772809 MS 772810 MS 772811 MS 772812 MS 772813 MS 772814 MS 772815 MS 772816 MS 772817 MD 794246 MD 794247 MD 794248 MD 794249 MD 794250 MD 794251 MD 794252 MD 794253 MD 794254 MD 794255 MD 794256 MD 794257 MD 794258 MD 794259 MD 794260 MD 794261 MD 794262 MD 794263 MD 794264 MD 794265 MD 794266 MD 794267 MD 794268 MD 794269 MD 794270 MD 794271 MD 794272 MD 794273 MD 794274