- 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 temperature is about 9,300 degrees Celsius.
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.