A-type star · white star
41 Sex
41 Sex is a white star in the constellation Sextans 311 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,520 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 37.81× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 311 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4237 · HD 93903 · HIP 52980
8,520 K
temperature
5.80
apparent magnitude
37.81× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3m
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
311 years
at light speed from Earth
1.48×
as hot as the Sun
37.81×
the Sun's light output
0.91
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.