Star profile
70 Aquilae
Highly luminous starWhat is 70 Aquilae
70 Aquilae rises within the bright stream of the summer Milky Way, about 1,300 light-years deep into the Eagle. It is an orange K-class luminary whose visibility from such a distance demands an output far brighter than the Sun. The light falling on us tonight left around the year 700, when medieval Europe was entering the reign of Charlemagne.
Where it is and when to see it
70 Aquilae lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is August: the Sun sits at the opposite point of the sky and the star culminates around midnight. How high it climbs above the horizon depends on the latitude you watch from.
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Astronomical data for 70 Aquilae
- Constellation
- Aquila
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.91
- Distance
- 1299.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 309.182° · Dec -2.550°
- Catalogue
- HIP 101692 · HD 196321
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Other stars in Aquila
Aquila has 72 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- AltairAlpha Aquilae0.76
- TarazedGamma Aquilae2.72
- OkabZeta Aquilae2.99
- Nu Aquilae4.64
- LibertasXi Aquilae4.71
- 69 Aquilae4.91
- Kappa Aquilae4.93
- Rho Aquilae4.94