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Encyclopedia Britannica



AQUILA

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 249 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: APO-ARN
AQUILA , in astronomy, the " Eagle," sometimes named the "
Vulture
 ," a
constellation
  of the northern hemisphere, mentioned by Eudoxus (4th cent. B.C.) and
Aratus
  (3rd cent. B.C.).
Ptolemy
  catalogued nineteen stars jointly in this
constellation
  and in the constellation Antinous, which was named in the reign of the emperor Hadrian (A.D. 117-138), but sometimes, and wrongly, attributed to Tycho Brahe, who catalogued twelve stars in Aquila and seven in Antinous; Hevelius determined twenty-three stars in the first, and nineteen in the second. The most brilliant
star
  of this constellation, a-Aquilae or Altair, has a
parallax
  of o.23", and consequently is about eight times as
bright
  as the sun; n-Aquilae is a short-period variable, while Nova Aquilae is a " temporary " or " new
star
 , discovered by Mrs Fleming of Harvard in 1899.


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