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14 Aquarii

star in the constellation Aquarius

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ530426 ↗
Source-derived summary

14 Aquarii (abbreviated 14 Aqr) is red giant star. 14 Aquarii is the Flamsteed designation; it also bears the variable star designation IW Aquarii. It is a semiregular variable with an amplitude of a tenth of a magnitude, and shows variations on a timescale of just one day. At its brightest, magnitude 6.44, it could be faintly visible to the naked eye under ideal observing conditions.

In 1996 the variability of the brightness of 14 Aquarii was first detected, in the Hipparcos satellite data, resulting in the publication of its variable star designation in 1999.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “14 Aquarii” as star in the constellation Aquarius. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996, 1999—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Aquarii, star and constellation can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as star in the constellation Aquarius. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q530426. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1996 and 1999.

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This entry incorporates text from “14 Aquarii” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.