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Multiple stars

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Altair is the brightest star in the equatorial constellation of Aquila and the twelfth-brightest star in the night sky. It has the Bayer designation Alpha Aquilae, which is Latinised from α Aquilae and abbreviated Alpha Aql or α Aql. Altair is an A-type main-sequence star with an apparent visual magnitude of 0.77 and is one of the vertices of the Summer Triangle asterism; the other two vertices are marked by Deneb and Vega. It is located at a distance of from the Sun. Altair is currently in the G-cloud—a nearby interstellar cloud formed from an accumulation of gas and dust.

Gamma Andromedae

multiple star system in the constellation Andromeda

star system in the constellation Scorpius

Gamma Cassiopeiae

star in the constellation Cassiopeia

star in the constellation Cygnus

star in the constellation Delphinus

star in the constellation Lepus

Zeta Andromedae

Beta Monocerotis

star in the constellation Monoceros

Lambda Ophiuchi

star system in the constellation Ophiuchus

variable star in the constellation Sagittarius

star in the constellation Cassiopeia

Catalog of Components of Double and Multiple Stars

star in the constellation Andromeda

binary star system in the constellation Cassiopeia

4 Camelopardalis

star system in the constellation Camelopardalis

Epsilon Chamaeleontis

star in the constellation Chamaeleon

Theta2 Microscopii

star in the constellation Microscopium

Psi Cassiopeiae

star in the constellation Cassiopeia