Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt discovered that the star is a variable star, in 1876. It appeared with its variable star designation in Annie Jump Cannon's 1907 work Second Catalogue of Variable Stars.[8]
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^ abZacharias, N.; Urban, S. E.; Zacharias, M. I.; Wycoff, G. L.; Hall, D. M.; Germain, M. E.; Holdenried, E. R.; Winter, L. (2003). "UCAC2 Catalogue (Zacharias+ 2004)". Vizier Online Data Catalog. Bibcode:2003yCat.1289....0Z.