Star profile
20 Aquilae
Hot blue starWhat is 20 Aquilae
20 Aquilae burns blue in the body of the celestial eagle at nearly a thousand light-years. A young, hot B-type star whose light set out for this shore of the sky around the time the Kingdom of Castile was taking shape. Magnitude 5.35 — a coldly intense blue point that has crossed, without pause, the better part of a millennium.
Where it is and when to see it
20 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 July, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it culminates about 31° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 41° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 64° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 82° N.
It ranks no. 37 in brightness among the 72 stars of Aquila in our catalogue. To find it, start from Altair, the brightest: it lies about 19° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 980 years ago.
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Astronomical data for 20 Aquilae
- Constellation
- Aquila
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.35
- Distance
- 979.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 288.170° · Dec -7.940°
- Catalogue
- HIP 94385 · HD 179406
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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
- Phi Aquilae5.28
- HIP 1005415.30
- HIP 931245.33
- 51 Aquilae5.38
- 14 Aquilae5.40