A-type star · white star
6 Sex
6 Sex is a white star in the constellation Sextans 207 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,394 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 13.88× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 207 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3899 · HD 85364 · HIP 48341
8,394 K
temperature
6.01
apparent magnitude
13.88× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
207 years
at light speed from Earth
1.45×
as hot as the Sun
13.88×
the Sun's light output
1.99
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.