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24 Sextantis (often shortened to 24 Sex) is a 7th-magnitude star located approximately 253 light years away in the constellation of Sextans. At an apparent visual magnitude of 6.61 this star can only be viewed from rural skies under good seeing conditions.At the age of 2.8 billion years it has reached an evolutionary stage called a subgiant star having a stellar classification of G5 IV. Previously it was an A-type main sequence star before using up the hydrogen at its core.