α-Sex (Star)
R/B-band color composite image from the Second Digitized Sky Survey (DSS2), measuring 30 arcminutes across.
From Cambridge , α-Sex is visible in the dawn sky, rising at 03:00 (EDT) – 3 hours and 58 minutes before the Sun – and reaching an altitude of 29° above the south-eastern horizon before fading from view as dawn breaks at around 05:52.
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Name
α-Sex
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Object type
Star
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Other names
Position
| Right ascension: | 10h07m56s [4] |
| Declination: | −00°22'18" [4] |
| Constellation: | Sextans |
| Magnitude: | 4.48 (V) [2] 4.44 (BT) [2] 4.47 (VT) [2] 4.43 (G) [4] 4.45 (BP) [4] 4.44 (RP) [4] |
| Distance: | 130.6 parsec 425.7 lightyrs [4] |
| B-V Color (mag): | -0.03 |
| Proper motion (speed): | 16.2 mas/yr[4] |
| Proper motion (pos ang): | 233.5° |
Derived quantities
| Absolute mag (V): | -1.10 |
Sources