B-type star · blue-white star

23 Sex

2,509 lybrightness mag 6.66B2.5IV

Also catalogued as HR 4064 · HD 89688 · HIP 50684

11,473 K
temperature
6.66
apparent magnitude
1,117× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2.5IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
2,509 years
at light speed from Earth
1.99×
as hot as the Sun
1,117×
the Sun's light output
-2.77
absolute magnitude
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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.