F-type star · yellow-white star
4 Sex
4 Sex is a yellow-white star in the constellation Sextans 146 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,486 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 5.55× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 146 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3893 · HD 85217 · HIP 48273
6,486 K
temperature
6.24
apparent magnitude
5.55× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F6V...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
146 years
at light speed from Earth
1.12×
as hot as the Sun
5.55×
the Sun's light output
2.99
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.