B-type star · blue-white star
Phi Vel
Phi Vel is a blue-white star in the constellation Vela 1,591 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,046 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 8,098× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,591 years ago.
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
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.