EPSILON AQUILAE
'Epsilon Aquilae' (ε Aql / ε Aquilae) is a triple star system in the constellation Aquila. It also has the traditional names 'Deneb el Okab', from an Arabic term ذنب العقاب ''ðanab al-cuqāb'' meaning "the tail of the falcon", and the Mandarin names 'Woo' and 'Yuë', derived from 吳 ''wú'', an old state near Jiangsu province, and 粵 ''yuè'', an old state in Guandong province. It shares these names with ζ Aquilae.
The primary component, 'ε Aquilae A', is an orange K-type giant with an apparent magnitude of +4.02. It has two 10th companions separated from the primary by 131.1 and 148.6 arcseconds. Epsilon Aquilae is approximately 154 light years from Earth.
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