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ι Sculptoris, Latinized as Iota Sculptoris and abbreviated iot Scl, is a solitary star in the southern constellation of Sculptor. It is visible to the naked eye as a dim, orange-hued point of light with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.18. The star is located approximately 336 light years from the Sun based on parallax, and is drifting further away with a radial velocity of +21 km/s.
Epsilon Sextantis, Latinized from ε Sextantis, is a solitary, yellow-white hued star in the equatorial constellation of Sextans. With an apparent visual magnitude of 5.24, it is faintly visible to the naked eye on a dark night. The distance to this star, based upon an annual parallax shift of 16.86 mas, is about 193 light years. It is drifting further away from the Sun with a radial velocity of +15 km/s.
Tau1 Aquarii, Latinized from τ1 Aquarii, is the Bayer designation for a single star in the equatorial constellation of Aquarius. With an apparent visual magnitude of 5.66, it is a faint naked eye that requires dark suburban skies for viewing. Parallax measurements made during the Hipparcos mission yield a distance estimate of roughly 355 light-years from Earth. The star is drifting further away with a radial velocity of +15 km/s. It is a candidate member of the Pisces-Eridanus stellar stream.
Phi Aquilae, Latinized from φ Aquilae, is the Bayer designation of a binary star system in the equatorial constellation of Aquila. It has an apparent visual magnitude of +5.28 and is visible to the naked eye. With an annual parallax shift of 14.198 mas, this star is located at a distance of approximately 230 light-years from Earth. It is drifting closer with a radial velocity of –27 km/s. Based on its motion through space, this system is considered a possible member of the nearby Argus association of co-moving stars, although it may be too old.
Upsilon Aquilae, Latinized from υ Aquilae, is the Bayer designation for a star in the equatorial constellation of Aquila. With an apparent visual magnitude of +5.91 it is a faint star but visible to the naked eye from suburban skies. It has an annual parallax shift of 18.66 mas, indicating a distance of around 175 light-years. The star is drifting closer with a radial velocity of –30 km/s.
70 Aquilae, abbreviated 70 Aql, is a single orange-hued star in the equatorial constellation of Aquila. 70 Aquilae is its Flamsteed designation. It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.90. The distance to 70 Aquilae, as determined from its annual parallax shift of 3.5 mas, is around 940 light years. The star is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −9 km/s.
23 Aquilae is a binary star system in the equatorial constellation of Aquila. 23 Aquilae is its Flamsteed designation. It is at a distance of about 400 light-years with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.10, which is bright enough to be faintly visible to the naked eye as an orange-hued star. The brightness of the star is diminished by 0.21 in magnitude because of extinction from interstellar dust and gas. The system is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of –23 km/s.
21 Aquilae is a solitary variable star in the equatorial constellation of Aquila. It has the variable star designation V1288 Aql; 21 Aquilae is its Flamsteed designation. This object is visible to the naked eye as a dim, blue-white hued star with a baseline apparent visual magnitude of about 5.1. The star is located at a distance of around 680 light-years from Earth, give or take a 20 light-year margin of error. It is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of –5 km/s.
14 Aquilae is a probable spectroscopic binary star system in the equatorial constellation of Aquila. 14 Aquilae is the Flamsteed designation though it also bears the Bayer designation g Aquilae. It is visible to the naked eye as a dim, white-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.42, and it is located at a distance of approximately 500 light-years from Sun. The star is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −39 km/s, and may come as close as 136 light-years in around 3.5 million years.
42 Aquilae, abbreviated 42 Aql, is a single star in the equatorial constellation of Aquila. 42 Aquilae is its Flamsteed designation. It is a dim star but visible to the naked eye under suitable viewing conditions, having an apparent visual magnitude of 5.45. 42 Aql is located some 104.6 light years away, as determined from its annual parallax shift of 31.2 mas. it is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −38 km/s, and is predicted to come to within 52 light-years of the Sun in around 752,000 years.
22 Aquilae, abbreviated 22 Aql, is a star in the equatorial constellation of Aquila. 22 Aquilae is its Flamsteed designation. It is a faint star but visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.59. The distance to 22 Aql can be estimated from its annual parallax shift of 4.74 mas, which yields a separation of 690 light years. It is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −23 km/s.
58 Aquilae is a single star located around 520 light years from the Sun in the equatorial constellation of Aquila, near Eta Aquilae. 58 Aquilae is its Flamsteed designation. It is visible to the naked eye as a dim, blue-white hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.60. This object is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −53 km/s, and may come as close as 161 light-years in around 1.8 million years.
62 Aquilae is a single star located about 427 light years away from the Sun in the equatorial constellation of Aquila. 62 Aquilae is its Flamsteed designation. It is visible to the naked eye as a dim, orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.67.
Xi Columbae is a binary star system in the southern constellation of Columba. With an apparent visual magnitude of 4.97, it is faintly visible to the naked eye. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 10.1 mas, it is located around 323 light years from the Sun. The system is a member of the HR 1614 supergroup, and is drifting further away with a radial velocity of +59.5 km/s,
45 Aquilae, abbreviated 45 Aql, is a triple star system in the equatorial constellation of Aquila. 45 Aquilae is its Flamsteed designation. It is located 350 light-years away from Earth, give or take a 6 light-year margin of error, and has a combined apparent visual magnitude of 5.7. The system is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of -46 km/s.
Omega1 Aquilae, which is Latinized from ω1 Aquilae, is the Bayer designation for a single star in the equatorial constellation of Aquila. With an apparent visual magnitude of 5.2 it is a faint, yellow-white hued star that can be seen with the naked eye in dark skies. From the annual parallax shift of 8.53 mas, the distance to this star can be estimated as 382 light-years, give or take a 6 light year margin of error. It is drifting closer to the Sun with a radial velocity of −14 km/s.
Zeta Indi is a single star in the southern constellation Indus, near the northern constellation border with Microscopium. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.90. The star is located approximately 430 light years away from the Sun based on parallax. The radial velocity estimate for this object is poorly constrained, but it appears to be moving closer at the rate of around −5 km/s.
ξ Pavonis, Latinised as Xi Pavonis, is a triple star system in the southern constellation of Pavo. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint star with a combined apparent visual magnitude of 4.35 The system is located approximately 440 light-years from the Sun based on parallax, and it is drifting further away with a radial velocity of +12 km/s.
ν Gruis, Latinised as Nu Gruis, is a solitary, yellow-hued star in the southern constellation of Grus. It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.47. The distance to this star, as determined using an annual parallax shift of 11.6 mas as seen from the Earth, is 280 light years. It is drifting further away with a heliocentric radial velocity of +11 km/s.
77 Ceti is a single, orange-hued star located 489 light years away in the equatorial constellation of Cetus. It is faintly visible to the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude of 5.7. This is an evolved giant star with a stellar classification of K2 III. It is radiating 187 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,206 K.
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