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public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:13 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:39
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19 Sextantis

Above the horizon.  Rise: 13:30 | Tran: 19:50 | Set: 2:15
Alt: 24.18°   Az: 115.24°   Direction: East-South-East

19 Sextantis is a giant star of spectral class K0 in the constellation of Sextans.

19 Sextantis visual magnitude is 5.77. Because of its faintness, 19 Sextantis is visible to the naked eye only from locations with very dark skies, while it is not visible at all from skies affected by light pollution.

Image of 19 Sextantis star
DSS2 image of 19 Sextantis. The red arrow shows the motion of 19 Sextantis during the next 10000 years (-8.50 arcmin in Right Ascension and -0.83 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

10h 14m 07s
+04° 29’ 18”
20h 16m 33s
06h 30m 40s

J2000

10h 12m 48s
+04° 36’ 52”

Galactic Coordinates

236.56°
46.03°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 19 Sextantis.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.77
Giant

-0.27
K0
4348K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 19 Sextantis is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 19 Sextantis. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

19 Sextantis is distant 526.66 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 32 kilometers per second.

161.55
526.66
32 km/s
-0.051 arcsec/y
-0.005"/y

Alternative Designations

19 Sextantis
SAO118164
SAO118164

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 19 Sextantis rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 85.5°
Max altitude: 43.0°
Azimuth: 274.5°