Star profile
Chi Aquilae
What is Chi Aquilae
Chi Aquilae is a yellow G2 supergiant about 854 light-years away, set in the constellation of the Eagle as it flies before the summer Milky Way. Its light reaches us filtered through the Great Rift, that long dark band of interstellar dust splitting the galaxy's luminous river. What we see now set out around the year 1170, deep in the Middle Ages.
Where it is and when to see it
Chi Aquilae lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is July: 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 Chi Aquilae
- Constellation
- Aquila
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.28
- Distance
- 853.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 295.642° · Dec 11.827°
- Catalogue
- HIP 96957 · HD 186203
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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
- 19 Aquilae5.23
- 11 Aquilae5.27
- Omega 1 Aquilae5.28
- Phi Aquilae5.28
- HIP 1005415.30