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Its story

35 Sextantis shines in a small, modest constellation devised by Hevelius in tribute to the astronomical instrument that fortune did not let him keep after a fire. It is an orange K-type giant whose warm light crosses 553 years before touching the eyepiece. It set out around the middle of the 15th century, when Gutenberg was printing the first Bibles with movable type.