B-type star · blue-white star

Gamma² Vel

Gamma² Vel is a blue-white star in the constellation Vela 1,117 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,390 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 20,380× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 1.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,117 years ago.

1,117 lybrightness mag 1.75WC8 + O9I

Also catalogued as HR 3207 · HD 68273 · HIP 39953

12,390 K
temperature
1.75
apparent magnitude
20,380× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
WC8 + O9I
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,117 years
at light speed from Earth
2.15×
as hot as the Sun
20,380×
the Sun's light output
-5.92
absolute magnitude
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Gamma² VelB-type
Sky regionVelathis direction
StarHR 321316 ly
StarHR 325073 ly
StarHR 323475 ly
StarAlsephinastar
StarSuhailstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Vela
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 1.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Vela

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.