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some at the Golden Eagle,

Original French:  les vns a l’Aigle d’or,

Modern French:  les uns à l’Aigle d’or,


Aquila

Aquila
Aquila, with the now-obsolete figure of Antinous.

Sidney Hall [1788–1831]
Urania’s Mirror; or, a view of the Heavens
1824
Wikipedia

Aquila

Aquila is a constellation in the northern sky. Its name is Latin for ‘eagle’ and it represents the bird who carried Zeus/Jupiter’s thunderbolts in Greco-Roman mythology. Aquila lies just a few degrees North of the celestial equator. The alpha star, Altair, is a vertex of the Summer Triangle asterism. The constellation is best seen in the summer as it is located along the Milky Way.

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Posted 10 February 2013. Modified 4 February 2016.

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