RA 149.2156° · Dec -54.5678° · star
22 more points to reach Anomaly.
Phi Vel is an epic star. It lies about 1,591 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Vel, shines at apparent magnitude 3.52 and has spectral type B5Ib.
Its spectrum reads B5Ib — a blue-white B-type star, with a surface tens of thousands of degrees hot and a life measured in tens of millions of years.
Look for Phi Vel in the constellation Vel. At apparent magnitude 3.52, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.
Like any astronomical target, Phi Vel is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.
Phi Vel scores 56 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 22 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 7 science badges — Star, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Naked-eye visible, Hot blue B-type star, Supergiant, Blue-white star and Intrinsically luminous (Mv < −2) — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.