24 Sextantis, often abbreviated as 24 Sex, is the Flamsteed designation of a 7th-magnitude star located approximately 236 light years away in the constellation of Sextans.
At an apparent visual magnitude of 6.61,[2] 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 K0 IV.
[3] Previously it was an A-type main sequence star before using up the hydrogen at its core.
The outer planet is 5/6 the mass of Jupiter and takes 883 days to orbit eccentrically around the star at the average distance of 2.08 AU (312 Gm).