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Altair

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The Altair System
Right Ascension	19h 51m
Declination	+08° 52'
Distance	16.73 ± 0.07 ly
Spectral Class	A7IV–V
Estimated Mass	1.7 × Sol
Luminosity	10.7 × Sol

Star charts
Altair as seen from Sol.	Sol as seen from Altair.

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Brightest stars as seen from Altair
Includes all stars of magnitude 1.00 and brighter
Star	Magnitude	Distance
Vega	−1.14	14.6
Canopus	−0.54	320.8
Arcturus	0.03	38.0
Rigel	0.22	876.0
Achernar	0.49	142.1
Alpha Aurigae (Capella)	0.51	52.2
Betelgeuse	0.51	512.1
Beta Centauri (Hadar)	0.62	394.2
Alpha Crucis (Acrux)	0.81	327.4
Fomalhaut	0.87	21.9
Sirius	0.89	25.0

Local Space

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Stargates in this system
Destination	Distance
61 Cygni A	9.8
70 Ophiuchi A	7.8

Details for this system are not yet ready.

Further reading

Fictional depictions of the Altair system

Imagination is vaster than all of space.

Altair system in Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki).
Altair in fiction in Wikipedia.

Nonfictional links

Just the facts.

Altair in the ARI Database for Nearby Stars.
Altair in the Bright Star Catalogue.
Altair in the Internet Stellar Database.
Altair in the SIMBAD Astronomical Database.
Altair in Solstation.
Altair in Stars.
Altair in Wikipedia.

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