Heliocodex

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Sextans

39 stars in Sextans can be seen by eye from a dark place. One has a name of its own. The rest go by a Greek letter, a number, or their place in a catalogue. Here is every one, brightest first.

Its stars

40 in all. The dot shows each star's colour.

  1. Alpha SextantisSeen away from bright lights, 280 light years
  2. Gamma SextantisJust seen from a dark place, 280 light years
  3. Beta SextantisJust seen from a dark place, 400 light years
  4. Delta SextantisJust seen from a dark place, 320 light years
  5. Epsilon SextantisJust seen from a dark place, 190 light years
  6. HIP 51046Just seen from a dark place, 400 light years
  7. 18 SextantisJust seen from a dark place, 470 light years
  8. HIP 47960Just seen from a dark place, 260 light years
  9. 35 SextantisJust seen from a dark place, 550 light years
  10. 19 SextantisJust seen from a dark place, 420 light years
  11. 41 SextantisJust seen from a dark place, 310 light years
  12. HIP 52948Just seen from a dark place, 340 light years
  13. HIP 48519Just seen from a dark place, 930 light years
  14. 17 SextantisJust seen from a dark place, 600 light years
  15. HIP 52863Just seen from a dark place, 550 light years
  16. 25 SextantisJust seen from a dark place, 340 light years
  17. HIP 53035Just seen from a dark place, 510 light years
  18. 6 SextantisJust seen from a dark place, 210 light years
  19. 7 SextantisJust seen from a dark place, 660 light years
  20. HIP 51302Just seen from a dark place, 260 light years
  21. HIP 50292Just seen from a dark place, 640 light years
  22. HIP 49293Just seen from a dark place, 1,200 light years
  23. 14 SextantisJust seen from a dark place, 360 light years
  24. HIP 51490Just seen from a dark place, 1,100 light years
  25. HIP 49900Just seen from a dark place, 490 light years
  26. 4 SextantisJust seen from a dark place, 150 light years
  27. 33 SextantisJust seen from a dark place, 120 light years
  28. 36 SextantisJust seen from a dark place, 480 light years
  29. HIP 50584Just seen from a dark place, 180 light years
  30. 26 SextantisJust seen from a dark place, 820 light years
  31. HIP 50939Just seen from a dark place, 310 light years
  32. HIP 48413Just seen from a dark place, 450 light years
  33. HIP 50552Just seen from a dark place, 300 light years
  34. HIP 50893Just seen from a dark place, 1,400 light years
  35. HIP 48351Just seen from a dark place, 140 light years
  36. 13 SextantisJust seen from a dark place, 180 light years
  37. HIP 48839Just seen from a dark place, 350 light years
  38. 24 SextantisJust seen from a dark place, 250 light years
  39. HIP 48375Just seen from a dark place, 1,100 light years
  40. BibhāNeeds a telescope, 310 light years

Where this comes from

The stars and their measurements are from the HYG star database, version 4.4, by David Nash, shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. Which constellation a star belongs to follows the boundaries drawn by the International Astronomical Union, as that database gives them. To see what is up tonight, open the sky map.