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Summer Triangle

The Summer Triangle is an astronomical asterism involving an imaginary triangle drawn, during the summer, upon the northern hemisphere's celestial sphere; with its defining vertices at Altair, Deneb, and Vega. This triangle connects the constellations of Aquila, Cygnus, and Lyra.

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