B-type star · blue-white star

Delta Sex

Delta Sex is a blue-white star in the constellation Sextans 322 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,795 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 71.25× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 322 years ago.

322 lybrightness mag 5.19B9.5V

Also catalogued as HR 4116 · HD 90882 · HIP 51362

10,795 K
temperature
5.19
apparent magnitude
71.25× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9.5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
322 years
at light speed from Earth
1.87×
as hot as the Sun
71.25×
the Sun's light output
0.22
absolute magnitude
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Delta SexB-type
Sky regionSextansthis direction
Star25 Sex21 ly
StarHR 405930 ly
StarHR 408533 ly
StarAlpha Sexstar
StarGamma Sexstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Sextans
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.2To see it no equipment neededLook 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.