A-type star · white star

26 Cam

26 Cam is a white star in the constellation Camelopardalis 198 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,453 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 13.66× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 198 years ago.

198 lybrightness mag 5.93A4Vn

Also catalogued as HR 1969 · HD 38091 · HIP 27249

8,453 K

temperature

5.93

apparent magnitude

13.66× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A4Vn

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

198 years

at light speed from Earth

1.46×

as hot as the Sun

13.66×

the Sun's light output

2.01

absolute magnitude

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26 CamA-type

Sky regionCamelopardalisthis direction

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Bright stars in Camelopardalis

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.9To 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.