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hip-49865
Its story
18 Sextantis lies about 473 light-years away within Sextans, a small, modest constellation drawn by Hevelius in the seventeenth century as a tribute to the instrument he most relied upon. As a K-class star, its light is orange and calm, marking a surface cooler than the Sun s. The radiation reaching us tonight left around 1550, in the heart of the Italian Renaissance.
- Constellation
- Sextans
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.64
- Distance
- 473.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 152.733° · Dec -8.418°
- Catalogue
- HIP 49865 · HD 88333
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