40-Sex (Star)
R/B-band color composite image from the Second Digitized Sky Survey (DSS2), measuring 30 arcminutes across.
From Fairfield , 40-Sex is visible in the evening sky, becoming accessible around 20:34 (EDT), 37° above your south-eastern horizon, as dusk fades to darkness. It will then reach its highest point in the sky at 22:28, 44° above your southern horizon. It will continue to be observable until around 02:11, when it sinks below 21° above your south-western horizon.
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Name
40-Sex
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Object type
Star
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Other names
Position
| Right ascension: | 10h49m17s [6] |
| Declination: | −04°01'26" [6] |
| Constellation: | Sextans |
| Magnitude: | 7.04 (V) [3] 6.85 (BT) [2] 6.61 (VT) [2] 7.05 (G) [6] 7.07 (BP) [6] 6.92 (RP) [6] |
| Distance: | 117.1 parsec 381.6 lightyrs [6] |
| B-V Color (mag): | 0.14 |
| Proper motion (speed): | 52.9 mas/yr[6] |
| Proper motion (pos ang): | 268.9° |
Derived quantities
| Absolute mag (V): | 1.70 |
Sources