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HD 55151 (HR 2712) is a solitary star located in the circumpolar constellation Volans. With an apparent magnitude of 6.47, it is near the limit of naked eye visibility. The star is located 512 light years away from the Solar System, but is drifting closer with a heliocentric radial velocity of -13 km/s.

HD 55151 has a stellar classification of K0 III, which states that it is an early K-type star that has exhausted hydrogen at its core and left the main sequence. It has twice the Sun's mass, but has expanded to 12 times the Sun's girth. It radiates at 70 solar luminosities from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,824 K, which gives it the orangish-yellow hue of a K-type star. HD 55151 belongs to the thin disk population, and is slightly metal deficient. However, it has a projected rotational velocity that is too low to be measured.

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v t e Constellation of Volans
List of stars in Volans Volans in Chinese astronomy
Stars	Bayer α β γ δ ε ζ η θ ι κ Variable R S UY HR 2505 2531 2536 2662 2712 2888 2979 2980 3036 3038 3081 3171 3280 3346 3370 3417 3491 3495 3537 3544 3610 HD 59640 68402 74423 76700 76920 Other L 98-59 L 97-12 WD 0806−661 WISE 0734−7157
Exoplanets HD 68402 b HD 76700 b L 98-59 b
Galaxies	NGC 2305 2397 2442 2443 2466 Other AM 0644-741
Galaxy clusters SMACS J0723.3–7327
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• Volans
• Bright Star Catalogue objects
• Henry Draper Catalogue objects
• K-type giants
• Hipparcos objects
• Gould objects
• Durchmusterung objects