Star profile
Eta Sagitta
What is Eta Sagitta
In tiny Sagitta — the Arrow that barely spans five degrees from tip to tip — this orange giant glows from 160 light-years away. The constellation is one of the oldest recognised: Ptolemy already included it in the 2nd century, and the Greeks linked it to the arrows of Hercules or Apollo. Its warm light crosses the dense star field of the summer Milky Way, where on a clean night every point seems part of a silent multitude.
Where it is and when to see it
Eta Sagitta lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is August: 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 Eta Sagitta
- Constellation
- Sagitta
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.09
- Distance
- 160.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 301.290° · Dec 19.991°
- Catalogue
- HIP 98920 · HD 190608
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Other stars in Sagitta
Sagitta has 14 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Gamma Sagitta3.51
- Delta Sagitta3.68
- ShamAlpha Sagitta4.39
- Beta Sagitta4.39
- Zeta Sagitta5.01
- 13 Sagitta5.33
- 11 Sagitta5.54
- 1 Sagitta5.65