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 946→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
222324252627
1 Aquila 946 2 Aquila 946 3 Aquila 946 4 Aquila 946 5 Aquila 946 6 Aquila 946 7 Aquila 946 8 Aquila 946 9 Aquila 946 10 Aquila 946 11 Aquila 946 12 Aquila 946 13 Aquila 946 14 Aquila 946 15 Aquila 946 16 Aquila 946 17 Aquila 946 18 Aquila 946 19 Aquila 946 20 Aquila 946 21 Aquila 946 22 Aquila 946 23 Aquila 946 24 Aquila 946 25 Aquila 946 26 Aquila 946 27 Aquila 946 1 Vulpecula 946 18 May 3391 19 May 3391 20 May 3391 21 May 3391 22 May 3391 23 May 3391 24 May 3391 25 May 3391 26 May 3391 27 May 3391 28 May 3391 29 May 3391 30 May 3391 31 May 3391 1 June 3391 2 June 3391 3 June 3391 4 June 3391 5 June 3391 6 June 3391 7 June 3391 8 June 3391 9 June 3391 10 June 3391 11 June 3391 12 June 3391 13 June 3391 14 June 3391
MS 485296 MS 485297 MS 485298 MS 485299 MS 485300 MS 485301 MS 485302 MS 485303 MS 485304 MS 485305 MS 485306 MS 485307 MS 485308 MS 485309 MS 485310 MS 485311 MS 485312 MS 485313 MS 485314 MS 485315 MS 485316 MS 485317 MS 485318 MS 485319 MS 485320 MS 485321 MS 485322 MS 485323 MD 498767 MD 498768 MD 498769 MD 498770 MD 498771 MD 498772 MD 498773 MD 498774 MD 498775 MD 498776 MD 498777 MD 498778 MD 498779 MD 498780 MD 498781 MD 498782 MD 498783 MD 498784 MD 498785 MD 498786 MD 498787 MD 498788 MD 498789 MD 498790 MD 498791 MD 498792 MD 498793 MD 498794