B-type star · blue-white star

Gam2Vel

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

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Gam2VelB-type

Sky regionVelathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 3213 →16 ly apart
HR 3250 →73 ly apart
HR 3234 →75 ly apart
HR 3116 →78 ly apart
HR 3118 →91 ly apart
HR 3178 →96 ly apart

Bright stars in Vela

Alsephina →mag 1.9
Suhail →mag 2.2
Markeb →mag 2.5
Mu Vel →mag 2.7
Phi Vel →mag 3.5
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 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.