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Vela is a constellation in the southern sky, which contains the Vela Supercluster. Its name is Latin for the sails of a ship, and it was originally part of a larger constellation, the ship Argo Navis , which was later divided into three parts, the others being Carina and Puppis .
The Catasterismi or Catasterisms (Greek Καταστερισμοί Katasterismoi, "Constellations" or "Placings Among the Stars" [1]) is a lost work by Eratosthenes of Cyrene. It was a comprehensive compendium of astral mythology including origin myths of the stars and constellations .
AH Velorum is a single, [11] yellow-white hued star in the constellation Vela. It has an average apparent visual magnitude of 5.70, [ 2 ] which makes it bright enough to be dimly visible to the naked eye in good seeing conditions.
HR 3803 or N Velorum (N Vel) is a 3rd-magnitude star on the border between the southern constellations Carina and Vela. Based upon parallax measurements, it is approximately 223 light-years (68 parsecs) from Earth. It has a spectral classificafion of K5III, [3] indicating that it has evolved from the main sequence and is now a giant star.
This constellation's Bayer designations (Greek-letter star names) were given while it was still considered part of the constellation of Argo Navis. After Argo Navis was broken up into Carina, Vela, and Puppis, these Greek-letter designations were kept, so that Vela does not have a full complement of Greek-letter designations. For example, since ...
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HY Velorum is a binary star [7] system in the southern constellation of Vela.It is a dim star but visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.83. [5] The distance to this system, as estimated from its annual parallax shift of 7.1 mas, [2] is 460 light years.
HD 79940 is a single [9] star in the southern constellation of Vela.It has the Bayer designation of k 1 Velorum; HD 79940 is the identifier from the Henry Draper Catalogue.This star has a yellow-white hue and is faintly visible to the naked eye as a point light source with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.63. [2]