K-type star · orange
19 Sex
19 Sex is an orange in the constellation Sextans 416 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,352 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 69.69× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 416 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4004 · HD 88547 · HIP 50027
4,352 K
temperature
5.77
apparent magnitude
69.69× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III:
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
416 years
at light speed from Earth
0.75×
as hot as the Sun
69.69×
the Sun's light output
0.24
absolute magnitude
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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.