F-type star · yellow-white star

2 Cam

2 Cam is a yellow-white star in the constellation Camelopardalis 145 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,270 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 12.36× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 145 years ago.

145 lybrightness mag 5.36A8V

Also catalogued as HR 1466 · HD 29316 · HIP 21730

7,270 K
temperature
5.36
apparent magnitude
12.36× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
145 years
at light speed from Earth
1.26×
as hot as the Sun
12.36×
the Sun's light output
2.12
absolute magnitude
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2 CamF-type
Sky regionCamelopardalisthis direction
StarHR 127612 ly
Star18 Cam21 ly
StarHR 166826 ly
StarBeta Camstar
StarAlpha Camstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Camelopardalis
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.4To 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.