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Genitive	Sextantis
Abbreviation	Sex
Constellation Family	Hercules
Celestial Quadrants	NQ2, SQ2
Right Ascension	9h41 to 10h52
Declination	+6.4° to -11.7°
Area (sq deg)	314
Brightest Star	Alpha Sextantis
Optimum Visibility	March
Notes	Defined within a square boundary, Sextans falls directly southward of Regulus and the Sickle formation in Leo. This is an extremely faint constellation, and even its brightest star, Alpha Sextantis, has an apparent magnitude of just +4.48, which makes it nearly twenty times fainter than prominent Regulus to its north.

Wedged between Leo and Hydra on the Celestial Equator is a constellation consisting of a just few faint stars: Sextans, the Sextant.

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