Star profile

66 Aquilae

3D likeness based on its real data · class K · ~4,200 K

What is 66 Aquilae

66 Aquilae is an orange ember in the Eagle, a K-class star visible to the naked eye under clean skies but lost in the wash when light pollution closes in. Its class places it among the cooler, calmer yellow-red giants, gentler than the Sun. The light now landing on the retina crossed seven hundred years of dark: it set out around 1325, during the Black Death that ravaged Europe.

Where it is and when to see it

66 Aquilae lies in the southern 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 66 Aquilae

Constellation: Aquila
Apparent magnitude: 5.44
Distance: 707.6 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 303.308° · Dec -1.009°
Catalogue: HIP 99631 · HD 192107

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Other stars in Aquila

Aquila has 72 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.

See all 72 stars in Aquila