H Velorum is a triple star system in the constellation Vela, at a distance of approximately 390 light years.

A visual pair of stars with magnitudes 4.7 and 8.0 are separated by 2.7. Their estimated orbital period is 646,000 years. The primary is a spectroscopic binary with two B-class main sequence stars in a 1.1-day orbit.[2]

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