B-type star · blue-white star

11 Cam

11 Cam is a blue-white star in the constellation Camelopardalis 685 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,247 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 314× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 685 years ago.

685 lybrightness mag 5.22B2.5Ve

Also catalogued as HR 1622 · HD 32343 · HIP 23734

11,247 K

temperature

5.22

apparent magnitude

314× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2.5Ve

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

685 years

at light speed from Earth

1.95×

as hot as the Sun

314×

the Sun's light output

-1.39

absolute magnitude

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11 CamB-type

Sky regionCamelopardalisthis direction

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Bright stars in Camelopardalis

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.2To see it no equipment neededLook toward Camelopardalis

Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.