K-type star · orange

36 Cam

36 Cam is an orange in the constellation Camelopardalis 715 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,044 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 301× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 715 years ago.

715 lybrightness mag 5.36K2II-III

Also catalogued as HR 2165 · HD 41927 · HIP 29490

4,044 K
temperature
5.36
apparent magnitude
301× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2II-III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
715 years
at light speed from Earth
0.70×
as hot as the Sun
301×
the Sun's light output
-1.34
absolute magnitude
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36 CamK-type
Sky regionCamelopardalisthis direction
Star1 Lyn92 ly
StarHR 2396100 ly
StarHD 40568120 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.