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Its story

27 Aquilae is a blue B-type star deep within the Eagle, the figure that crosses the celestial equator with Altair as its eye. Around 438 light-years away, its light set out around 1588 —the year of the Spanish Armada— and reaches us with the cleanness of surfaces hotter than 15,000 degrees.

Constellation: Aquila
Apparent magnitude: 5.46
Distance: 437.9 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 290.149° · Dec -0.892°
Catalogue: HIP 95073 · HD 181440

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