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QS Aquilae

star in the constellation Aquila

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ1748630 ↗
Source-derived summary

QS Aquilae is a triple or quadruple star system consisting of an eclipsing binary in a 2.5 day orbit around which a third star orbits in 77 years. There is some indication that there is a fourth component with a period of roughly 18 years. Located in the constellation Aquila, its visual magnitude varies from 5.93 to 6.06, making it barely visible to the naked eye.

The star's variability was discovered photometrically by Paul Guthnick and Richard Prager in 1930. It was given its variable star designation in 1934.

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The public source identifies “QS Aquilae” as star in the constellation Aquila. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Aquilae, star and constellation.

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—1930, 1934—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Aquilae, star and constellation providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1748630. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1930 and 1934.

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This entry incorporates text from “QS Aquilae” 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.