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Altair (Alpha Aquilae Alpha Aql α Aquilae α Aql Atair) is the brightest star in the constellation Aquila and the twelfth brightest star in the night sky. It is currently in the G-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).Altair rotates rapidly with a velocity at the equator of approximately 286 km/s.
