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name: Altair  (α Aquilae)
constellation: Aql
created_by: 8mag
created_date: 2022-01-21 17:00:00
updated_by: skybber
updated_date: 2022-01-21 17:24:04.046238
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 one of the closest bright stars visible to the naked eye. It has a brightness of 0.77mag, and is approximately 16.5 light years away. It's only 11 times brighter and one and a half times larger in diameter than our sun. Altair is also an optical binary star, at a distance of 165 arc seconds there is a 10mag companion, still visible with an 8cm telescope.