B-type star · blue-white star

Phi Vel

1,591 lybrightness mag 3.52B5Ib

Also catalogued as HR 3940 · HD 86440 · HIP 48774

11,046 K

temperature

3.52

apparent magnitude

8,098× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B5Ib

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,591 years

at light speed from Earth

1.91×

as hot as the Sun

8,098×

the Sun's light output

-4.92

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Phi VelB-type

Sky regionVelathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 4038 →90 ly apart
HR 3971 →210 ly apart
HD 92155 →220 ly apart
HR 3884 →220 ly apart
HD 92399 →230 ly apart
HR 4066 →240 ly apart

Bright stars in Vela

Gam2Vel →mag 1.8
Alsephina →mag 1.9
Suhail →mag 2.2
Markeb →mag 2.5
Mu Vel →mag 2.7
Psi Vel →mag 3.6
Kalausi →mag 8.2
Natasha →mag 8.5

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 3.5To 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.