A-type star · white star
29 Cam
29 Cam is a white star in the constellation Camelopardalis 478 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,757 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 45.62× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 478 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1992 · HD 38618 · HIP 27592
8,757 K
temperature
6.53
apparent magnitude
45.62× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A4IV-V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
478 years
at light speed from Earth
1.52×
as hot as the Sun
45.62×
the Sun's light output
0.70
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.