We use cookies to deliver essential features and to measure their performance. Learn more.
Help us keep TheSkyLive 100% free & ads-free, donate now!
Home
Search Objects
Major Solar System Objects
Comets
Asteroids
Spacecrafts
Star Maps
Orbits
public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 7:19 
Transit: 12:14 
Sunset: 17:09
sleep   (Nighttime)  
What's Visible Now • Tonight Timeline
Search  close
All Constellations » Aquila » 

5 Aquilae

Above the horizon.  Rise: 3:23 | Tran: 9:17 | Set: 15:10
Alt: 10.55°   Az: 105.10°   Direction: East-South-East

5 Aquilae is a multiple main-sequence star of spectral class A2 in the constellation of Aquila.

5 Aquilae visual magnitude is 5.9. Because of its faintness, 5 Aquilae is visible to the naked eye only from locations with very dark skies, while it is not visible at all from skies affected by light pollution.

Image of 5 Aquilae star
DSS2 image of 5 Aquilae. The red arrow shows the motion of 5 Aquilae during the next 10000 years (2.17 arcmin in Right Ascension and -3.67 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

18h 47m 46s
-00° 55’ 59”
19h 13m 17s
14h 01m 03s

J2000

18h 46m 28s
-00° 57’ 42”

Galactic Coordinates

31.51°
0.67°

Finder Chart

loader
  Loading map...
Finder chart for 5 Aquilae.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.9
Main-sequence

1.41
A2V
8748K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 5 Aquilae is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 5 Aquilae. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

5 Aquilae is a visual double star which can be observed with the help of small or medium telescopes. The table below shows key information about the 5 Aquilae double sysyem:

5.9
7.5
1.6
12.8 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

5 Aquilae is distant 258.32 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 17 kilometers per second.

79.24
258.32
17 km/s
0.013 arcsec/y
-0.022"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO142606
SAO142606

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 5 Aquilae rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 90.9°
Max altitude: 37.6°
Azimuth: 269.1°