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 225→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
1 Aquila 225 2 Aquila 225 3 Aquila 225 4 Aquila 225 5 Aquila 225 6 Aquila 225 7 Aquila 225 8 Aquila 225 9 Aquila 225 10 Aquila 225 11 Aquila 225 12 Aquila 225 13 Aquila 225 14 Aquila 225 15 Aquila 225 16 Aquila 225 17 Aquila 225 18 Aquila 225 19 Aquila 225 20 Aquila 225 21 Aquila 225 22 Aquila 225 23 Aquila 225 24 Aquila 225 25 Aquila 225 26 Aquila 225 27 Aquila 225 1 Vulpecula 225 23 November 2034 24 November 2034 25 November 2034 26 November 2034 27 November 2034 28 November 2034 29 November 2034 30 November 2034 1 December 2034 2 December 2034 3 December 2034 4 December 2034 5 December 2034 6 December 2034 7 December 2034 8 December 2034 9 December 2034 10 December 2034 11 December 2034 12 December 2034 13 December 2034 14 December 2034 15 December 2034 16 December 2034 17 December 2034 18 December 2034 19 December 2034 20 December 2034 21 December 2034
MS 3242 MS 3243 MS 3244 MS 3245 MS 3246 MS 3247 MS 3248 MS 3249 MS 3250 MS 3251 MS 3252 MS 3253 MS 3254 MS 3255 MS 3256 MS 3257 MS 3258 MS 3259 MS 3260 MS 3261 MS 3262 MS 3263 MS 3264 MS 3265 MS 3266 MS 3267 MS 3268 MS 3269 MD 3322 MD 3323 MD 3324 MD 3325 MD 3326 MD 3327 MD 3328 MD 3329 MD 3330 MD 3331 MD 3332 MD 3333 MD 3334 MD 3335 MD 3336 MD 3337 MD 3338 MD 3339 MD 3340 MD 3341 MD 3342 MD 3343 MD 3344 MD 3345 MD 3346 MD 3347 MD 3348 MD 3349 MD 3350