K-type star · orange

12 Cam

12 Cam is an orange in the constellation Camelopardalis 714 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,489 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 154× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 714 years ago.

714 lybrightness mag 6.08K0III

Also catalogued as HR 1623 · HD 32357 · HIP 23743

4,489 K
temperature
6.08
apparent magnitude
154× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
714 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
154×
the Sun's light output
-0.62
absolute magnitude
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12 CamK-type
Sky regionCamelopardalisthis direction
Star11 Cam28 ly
StarHR 138275 ly
Star15 Cam77 ly
StarBeta Camstar
StarAlpha Camstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Camelopardalis
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.