RA 162.3220° · Dec -4.0239° · star
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40 Sex is a trash star. It lies about 280.4 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Sex, shines at apparent magnitude 6.61 and has spectral type A2IV.
Its spectrum reads A2IV — an A-type star: white-hot, typically about twice the Sun's mass, and the class most of the sky's famous bright stars belong to.
Look for 40 Sex in the constellation Sex. At apparent magnitude 6.61, it is an easy target for binoculars.
Like any astronomical target, 40 Sex is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.
40 Sex scores 13 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 2 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, White A-type star and Subgiant (leaving the main sequence) — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.