Eps

Its story

Epsilon Sextantis is a yellow-white type F star burning some 194 light-years away, in the Sextant —the navigational instrument celebrated by Hevelius in the seventeenth century to honour the very tool with which he measured the sky. It is a discreet constellation set between Leo and Hydra, and Epsilon is one of its few naked-eye stars, a modest homage to the science of practical astronomers.