B-type star · blue-white star

15 Cam

15 Cam is a blue-white star in the constellation Camelopardalis 786 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,529 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 179× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 786 years ago.

786 lybrightness mag 6.13B5V

Also catalogued as HR 1719 · HD 34233 · HIP 24836

10,529 K

temperature

6.13

apparent magnitude

179× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

786 years

at light speed from Earth

1.82×

as hot as the Sun

179×

the Sun's light output

-0.78

absolute magnitude

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15 CamB-type

Sky regionCamelopardalisthis direction

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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.