Beta Aquilae

Beta Aquilae I Beta Aquilae II Beta Aquilae or Alshain is a real star system (spectral classes G8 IV and M3) and the second brightest star located in the constellation Aquila (the first brightest is Altair). [edit] External links ...

Beta Aquilae is relatively fixed, with a faint red dwarf companion: 3.7, 11.6; PA 5º, separation 13". Zeta Aquilae also has a very faint dwarf companion, of uncertain period: 3.0, 12; PA 53º, separation 6.5".

ALSHAIN (Beta Aquilae). Altair, Tarazed, and Alshain make the prominent trio of stars in Aquila (the Eagle) that together seem like a bird, even an airplane, flying across the sky. They also reminded the Arabs of a scale beam, or balance.

Altair, along with Beta Aquilae and Gamma Aquilae, form the well-known line of stars sometimes referred to as the shaft of Aquila. References to the star ...

8 light-years (5.14 pc) from Earth and is one of the closest stars visible to the naked eye.[1][9] Along with Beta Aquilae and Gamma Aquilae, it forms the well-known line of stars sometimes referred to as the Family of Aquila or Shaft of Aquila.[10] ...

Alshain Beta Aquilae Alshat Nu Capricorni Altair Alpha Aquilae Altais Delta Draconis Altarf Beta Cancri Alterf Lambda Leonis Al Thalimain Iota Aquilae Aludra Eta Canis Majoris Alula Australis Xi Ursae Majoris Alula Borealis Nu Ursae Majoris ...

See also: Altair, Star, Aquila, Constellation, Light