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hip-101692
Highly luminous starIts story
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.
- 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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