A-type star · white star

4 Cam

4 Cam is a white star in the constellation Camelopardalis 172 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,823 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 18.57× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 172 years ago.

172 lybrightness mag 5.29A3m

Also catalogued as HR 1511 · HD 30121 · HIP 22287

7,823 K
temperature
5.29
apparent magnitude
18.57× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3m
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
172 years
at light speed from Earth
1.36×
as hot as the Sun
18.57×
the Sun's light output
1.68
absolute magnitude
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4 CamA-type
Sky regionCamelopardalisthis direction
StarHR 15153.7 ly
StarHR 119223 ly
Star2 Cam29 ly
StarBeta Camstar
StarAlpha Camstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Camelopardalis
Can you see it tonight?
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.