A-type star · white star
Alsephina
Alsephina is a white star in the constellation Vela 80.6 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,619 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 89.78× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 1.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 81 years ago.
Also catalogued as Delta Vel · HR 3485 · HD 74956 · HIP 42913 · Gliese Gl 321.3A
9,619 K
temperature
1.93
apparent magnitude
89.78× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
81 years
at light speed from Earth
1.67×
as hot as the Sun
89.78×
the Sun's light output
-0.03
absolute magnitude
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Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.