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106 Aquarii

106 Aquarii, abbreviated 106 Aqr, is a single star in the equatorial constellation of Aquarius. 106 Aquarii is the Flamsteed designation, and it also bears the Bayer designation i<sup>1</sup>&nbsp;Aquarii. It has an apparent visual magnitude of +5.2, making it bright enough to be viewed from the suburbs according to the Bortle Dark-Sky Scale. An annual parallax shift of 8.61&nbsp;milliarcseconds yields an estimated distance of around from Earth.

The spectrum of this star fits a stellar classification of B9&nbsp;V, indicating this is a B-type main sequence star. It is spinning rapidly with a projected rotational velocity of 328&nbsp;km/s. The star has three times the mass of the Sun and is radiating 146 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of . X-ray emission with a luminosity of has been detected from this star. This is unusual since a B-type star normally does not have any significant X-ray emission. Instead, it may have an undetected lower mass companion.

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