A-type star · white star
Gamma Sex
Gamma Sex is a white star in the constellation Sextans 278 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,675 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 59.16× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 278 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3909 · HD 85558 · HIP 48437
9,675 K
temperature
5.07
apparent magnitude
59.16× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
278 years
at light speed from Earth
1.68×
as hot as the Sun
59.16×
the Sun's light output
0.42
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.