Editing Sextans (section)

=== Stars ===
{{See also|List of stars in Sextans}}
[[File:SextansCC.jpg|thumb|left|The constellation Sextans as it can be seen by the naked eye]]

[[John Flamsteed]] labeled 41 stars for the constellation.<ref name="wagman">{{cite book  | last = Wagman  | first = Morton  | date = 2003  | title = Lost Stars: Lost, Missing and Troublesome Stars from the Catalogues of Johannes Bayer, Nicholas Louis de Lacaille, John Flamsteed, and Sundry Others  | publisher = The McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company  | location = Blacksburg, [[Virginia|VA]]  | isbn = 978-0-939923-78-6 |pages=290}}</ref> [[Francis Baily]] intended to give [[Bayer designation]]s to some of the stars but because none of them were above magnitude 4.5, he left them unlettered.<ref name="wagman"/> Rather, it was [[Benjamin Apthorp Gould]] who lettered some of the stars. He labeled the five brightest stars using [[Greek letter]]s Alpha (α) to Epsilon (ε) in his ''Uranometria Argentina''.<ref name="wagman"/> All together, there are 38 stars that are brighter than or equal to apparent magnitude 6.5.{{efn|1=Objects of magnitude 6.5 are among the faintest visible to the unaided eye in suburban–rural transition night skies.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.skyandtelescope.com/resources/darksky/3304011.html?page=1&c=y|title=The Bortle Dark-Sky Scale|last=Bortle|first=John E.|date=February 2001|work=[[Sky & Telescope]]|publisher=Sky Publishing Corporation|access-date=4 March 2016}}</ref>}}<ref name=tirionconst>{{cite web| url=http://www.ianridpath.com/constellations2.html | title=Constellations: Lacerta–Vulpecula | work= Star Tales |author=Ridpath, Ian|publisher=Self-published | access-date= 4 March 2016| author-link=Ian Ridpath }}</ref>