B-type star · blue-white star

30 Cam

30 Cam is a blue-white star in the constellation Camelopardalis 484 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,598 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 67.11× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 484 years ago.

484 lybrightness mag 6.14A0Vs

Also catalogued as HR 2006 · HD 38831 · HIP 27731

10,598 K
temperature
6.14
apparent magnitude
67.11× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0Vs
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
484 years
at light speed from Earth
1.84×
as hot as the Sun
67.11×
the Sun's light output
0.28
absolute magnitude
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30 CamB-type
Sky regionCamelopardalisthis direction
Star31 Cam17 ly
Star29 Cam18 ly
Star40 Cam28 ly
StarBeta Camstar
StarAlpha Camstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Camelopardalis
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.