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 171→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
252627
1 Aquila 171 2 Aquila 171 3 Aquila 171 4 Aquila 171 5 Aquila 171 6 Aquila 171 7 Aquila 171 8 Aquila 171 9 Aquila 171 10 Aquila 171 11 Aquila 171 12 Aquila 171 13 Aquila 171 14 Aquila 171 15 Aquila 171 16 Aquila 171 17 Aquila 171 18 Aquila 171 19 Aquila 171 20 Aquila 171 21 Aquila 171 22 Aquila 171 23 Aquila 171 24 Aquila 171 25 Aquila 171 26 Aquila 171 27 Aquila 171 1 Vulpecula 171 21 April 1933 22 April 1933 23 April 1933 24 April 1933 25 April 1933 26 April 1933 27 April 1933 28 April 1933 29 April 1933 30 April 1933 1 May 1933 2 May 1933 3 May 1933 4 May 1933 5 May 1933 6 May 1933 7 May 1933 8 May 1933 9 May 1933 10 May 1933 11 May 1933 12 May 1933 13 May 1933 14 May 1933 15 May 1933 16 May 1933 17 May 1933 18 May 1933 19 May 1933
MS -32861 MS -32860 MS -32859 MS -32858 MS -32857 MS -32856 MS -32855 MS -32854 MS -32853 MS -32852 MS -32851 MS -32850 MS -32849 MS -32848 MS -32847 MS -32846 MS -32845 MS -32844 MS -32843 MS -32842 MS -32841 MS -32840 MS -32839 MS -32838 MS -32837 MS -32836 MS -32835 MS -32834 MD -33784 MD -33783 MD -33782 MD -33781 MD -33780 MD -33779 MD -33778 MD -33777 MD -33776 MD -33775 MD -33774 MD -33773 MD -33772 MD -33771 MD -33770 MD -33769 MD -33768 MD -33767 MD -33766 MD -33765 MD -33764 MD -33763 MD -33762 MD -33761 MD -33760 MD -33759 MD -33758 MD -33757 MD -33756