M-type star · red
17 Cam
17 Cam is a red in the constellation Camelopardalis 940 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,510 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 487× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 940 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1802 · HD 35583 · HIP 25769
3,510 K
temperature
5.43
apparent magnitude
487× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
940 years
at light speed from Earth
0.61×
as hot as the Sun
487×
the Sun's light output
-1.87
absolute magnitude
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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.