hip-97871

Variable star

Its story

It shines in Aquila with the precise whiteness of an A-type star and a discreet flicker that places it among the variables. Its light took just over 260 years to arrive: it set out when Benjamin Franklin was measuring the electricity of clouds and the Enlightenment was carving the world into categories. Aquila is a northern summer constellation, crossed by the Milky Way. There the star keeps a quiet pulse, away from the eagle s main axis.

Constellation: Aquila
Apparent magnitude: 5.63
Distance: 261.4 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 298.328° · Dec -3.114°
Catalogue: HIP 97871 · HD 188041

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