K-type star · orange

37 Cam

37 Cam is an orange in the constellation Camelopardalis 381 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,523 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 86.14× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 381 years ago.

381 lybrightness mag 5.35G8III

Also catalogued as HR 2152 · HD 41597 · HIP 29246

4,523 K

temperature

5.35

apparent magnitude

86.14× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G8III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

381 years

at light speed from Earth

0.78×

as hot as the Sun

86.14×

the Sun's light output

0.01

absolute magnitude

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37 CamK-type

Sky regionCamelopardalisthis direction

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Bright stars in Camelopardalis

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.3To 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.