A-type star · white star

12 Sex

12 Sex is a white star in the constellation Sextans 195 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,539 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 6.58× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.7 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 195 years ago.

195 lybrightness mag 6.69F0V

Also catalogued as HR 3945 · HD 86611 · HIP 48990

7,539 K
temperature
6.69
apparent magnitude
6.58× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
195 years
at light speed from Earth
1.31×
as hot as the Sun
6.58×
the Sun's light output
2.81
absolute magnitude
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12 SexA-type
Sky regionSextansthis direction
Star13 Sex13 ly
Star6 Sex30 ly
StarHR 376238 ly
StarAlpha Sexstar
StarGamma Sexstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Sextans
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.7To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Sextans

Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.