- Stars with a name
- Alsephina
Alsephina
δ Velorum
Alsephina is a white star, in the constellation Vela. The light you see from it tonight left it around 1945.
Where to find it
From mid-northern latitudes, such as New York, Rome or Tokyo, it never rises: it belongs to the southern sky.
Bright enough to see even from a city. Apparent magnitude 1.93.
What it’s like
It gives off 90 times as much light as the Sun.
Its surface is at about 9,600 degrees.
It is 80.6 light years away: 762 trillion kilometres.
It is the star of people born around 1945: the light that left it then is reaching Earth now.