Star profile
Phi Aquilae
What is Phi Aquilae
Phi Aquilae is a white A-type star in the Eagle, about 220 light-years away. The constellation, already identified by the Babylonians as a bird of prey four thousand years ago, crosses an especially rich region of the Milky Way —the galactic plane runs right through Aquila here, setting this star against a backdrop of countless more distant suns blurring into a luminous band. The light arriving now set out in the heart of the European Middle Ages.
Where it is and when to see it
Phi 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 Phi Aquilae
- Constellation
- Aquila
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.28
- Distance
- 219.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 299.059° · Dec 11.424°
- Catalogue
- HIP 98103 · HD 188728
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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
- 11 Aquilae5.27
- Omega 1 Aquilae5.28
- Chi Aquilae5.28
- HIP 1005415.30
- HIP 931245.33