K-type star · orange dwarf
33 Sex
33 Sex is an orange dwarf in the constellation Sextans 120 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,051 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3.73× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 120 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4182 · HD 92588 · HIP 52316
5,051 K
temperature
6.25
apparent magnitude
3.73× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
120 years
at light speed from Earth
0.88×
as hot as the Sun
3.73×
the Sun's light output
3.42
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.