Antinous
HD 191692 · HIP 99473 · θ Aql
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.22 mag
- Parallax
- 11.39 mas → about 286.4 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B9.5III
- Right ascension
- 302.8262°
- Declination
- -0.821464°
- Designation
- HD 191692
- Bayer designation
- θ Aql
- HIP number
- 99473
- IAU name adopted
- 2024-06-06
- Name language
- Greco-Roman
- Name origin (IAU)
- A "sub"-constellation (or asterism) Antinous was created by Ptolemy of Alexandria and published in the Almagest star catalogue 137 CE. It is placed in the constellation of Aquila, The Eagle.
Source:IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗ESA Hipparcos Catalogue (ESA Gaia Archive) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗
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Constellation
In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 286 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1740 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.2 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -0.8° — it rises above the horizon in Seoul (37.6° N), so it is visible from Korea in the right season.
Worked out from this object's official values.