K-type star · orange

40 Cam

40 Cam is an orange in the constellation Camelopardalis 492 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,053 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 141× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 492 years ago.

492 lybrightness mag 5.37K3III

Also catalogued as HR 2201 · HD 42633 · HIP 29730

4,053 K
temperature
5.37
apparent magnitude
141× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
492 years
at light speed from Earth
0.70×
as hot as the Sun
141×
the Sun's light output
-0.52
absolute magnitude
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40 CamK-type
Sky regionCamelopardalisthis direction
Star4 Lyn9.9 ly
Star30 Cam28 ly
StarHD 4406128 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.