K-type star · orange

3 Cam

3 Cam is an orange in the constellation Camelopardalis 422 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,561 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 137× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 422 years ago.

422 lybrightness mag 5.07K0III SB

Also catalogued as HR 1467 · HD 29317 · HIP 21727

4,561 K
temperature
5.07
apparent magnitude
137× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III SB
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
422 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
137×
the Sun's light output
-0.49
absolute magnitude
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3 CamK-type
Sky regionCamelopardalisthis direction
StarHR 156118 ly
StarHR 154630 ly
StarLambda Per43 ly
StarBeta Camstar
StarAlpha Camstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Camelopardalis
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.1To 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.