K-type star · orange

14 Sex

14 Sex is an orange in the constellation Sextans 356 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,894 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 34.39× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 356 years ago.

356 lybrightness mag 6.20K1III

Also catalogued as HR 3973 · HD 87682 · HIP 49530

4,894 K

temperature

6.20

apparent magnitude

34.39× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K1III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

356 years

at light speed from Earth

0.85×

as hot as the Sun

34.39×

the Sun's light output

1.01

absolute magnitude

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14 SexK-type

Sky regionSextansthis direction

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Brightness mag 6.2To 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.