Crossword clues for altair
altair
- Aquila star
- Alpha Aquilae (star)
- Bright star in Aquila
- Milky Way star
- Star's key tune
- Summer Triangle star
- Star orbited in "Forbidden Planet"
- Star of the first magnitude
- Lariat (anag) — star in Aquila
- Early microcomputer named for a star
- Early hobbyist's computer
- Bright star of Aquila
- Alpha Aquilae alias
- 1975 microcomputer, the ___ 8800
- Star in Aquila
- Bright northern star
- One of the 20 brightest stars
- Brightest star in the Aquila constellation
- Bright star, one corner of "the summer triangle"
- Star in the Summer Triangle
- Brightest star in Aquila
- Aquila's brightest star
- Pioneering microcomputer
- Brightest 1-Down in Aquila
- Brightest star in the Eagle constellation
- Double star 15.7 light years from Earth
- The brightest star in the Aquila constellation
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bright star in the constellation Aquila, 16c., from Arabic Al Nasr al Tair "the Flying Eagle," from tair, participle of tara "it flew."
Wikipedia
Altair (; α Aquilae, α Aql) is the brightest star in the constellation Aquila and the twelfth brightest star in the night sky. It is currently in the G-cloud—a nearby accumulation of gas and dust known as an interstellar cloud. 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 (the other two vertices are marked by Deneb and Vega). It is 16.7 light-years (5.13 parsecs) from Earth and is one of the closest stars visible to the naked eye.
Altair rotates rapidly, with a velocity at the equator of approximately 286 km/s. This is a significant fraction of the star's estimated breakup speed of 400 km/s. A study with the Palomar Testbed Interferometer revealed that Altair is not spherical, but is flattened at the poles due to its high rate of rotation. Other interferometric studies with multiple telescopes, operating in the infrared, have imaged and confirmed this phenomenon.
Altair is a star in the Aquila constellation.
Altair may also refer to:
The Altair was a solid-fuel rocket with a fiberglass casing, initially developed for use as the third stage of Vanguard rockets. It was manufactured by Allegany Ballistics Laboratory (ABL) as the X-248. It was also sometimes called the Burner 1.
The Altair Project (or Altair) is a residential and commercial development under construction in Colombo, Sri Lanka. At 68 stories and 240m, the building will be one of the tallest buildings in Colombo when it is completed. The building is situated adjacent to Beira Lake on 2 acres of land located at 127, Sir James Pieris Mawatha, Colombo 00200. As of August 2013, piling is completed.
Altair is a 1956 Italian romantic drama film directed by Leonardo De Mitri and starring Franco Interlenghi, Antonella Lualdi and Jacques Sernas.
Usage examples of "altair".
But he was also a practical lad, and always his eye came back to brilliant Altair with its two distinctive guardians, and he realized that as long as he lived he would be able to look casually at the autumn sky and identify Altair.
Marine who had come to K-22 with his photo Banshee and he wanted desperately to see Altair come rising from the sea, his star, his omen to bless this night.
May 1952, when eagle-like Altair was flying toward the apex of the heavens, a radar watcher just south of the battle line detected a blip which had to be an airplane of some sort coming south toward the huge gasoline dump at Inchon.
It had been Altair since that October night in 1944 when he first saw that perfect star in his borrowed binoculars.
It was Altair when he followed that star over the night skies in Korea.
It had been Altair during indoctrination in the planetarium at Fremont State.
To acquaint them with the proper system, the star Altair, a member of our Galaxy, is 9.
But Altair III did indeed have intelligent life forms: it was perhaps unfortunate that first contact, light-years from here, had gone so badly, all those decades ago.
In which case, it would be Earth and Tau Ceti IV and Epsilon Indi II that would have been about to feel its effects, instead of Altair III.
I indulged in both pursuitsrather aggressively the night before we arrived at Altair VI to attend a presidential inauguration.
Every two years since the founding of the Federation, Starfleet has sent three ships to attend the inauguration at Altair VI.
He recognized it as one of the natives of the grim starvation world of Altair Four.
One resembled a sanitized and opulent version of one of the notorious drug dens of Altair III, another was a formal, candle-lit affair featuring crisp linen tablecloths, fine china and silver, and servants in powdered wigs and Revolutionary America costumes, while a third was simply a huge silk tent in which the customers sat or reclined on large cushions and ate off a long, very low table.
All he found was the narrow slice of Aquila that held Altair and the two companion stars that made the pointing shaft.
The woman, dressed in a glittering metallic blue gown, had long blonde hair piled high on her head, and wore a necklace of gleaming bloodstones from the mines of Altair III.