Arabic name (الطائر) derived from Al - "the" + Tair - "bird; pilot, airman"
Altair is the brightest star in the constellation Aquila and the twelfth brightest star in the night sky. It 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 are Deneb and Vega.
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