Markeb

Markeb is a named binary belonging to Vela. Look for it while tracing Vela on a dark night. The IAU proper name sits beside older Bayer and catalog labels on modern atlases.

Wikipedia

Gaia has no usable parallax for this star (common for bright multiples). Distance uses the Hipparcos parallax instead.

ID
5310393535853560576
Distance
175.44 pc · 572.2 ly
Parallax
5.70 mas (Hipparcos)
Magnitude (G)
2.49
Color (BP-RP)
-
Radius
unknown
RA · Dec
140.53° · -55.01°