B-type star · blue-white star

42 Cam

42 Cam is a blue-white star in the constellation Camelopardalis 924 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,529 K, about 2.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 614× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 924 years ago.

924 lybrightness mag 5.14B4IV

Also catalogued as HR 2490 · HD 48879 · HIP 32864

12,529 K
temperature
5.14
apparent magnitude
614× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B4IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
924 years
at light speed from Earth
2.17×
as hot as the Sun
614×
the Sun's light output
-2.12
absolute magnitude
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42 CamB-type
Sky regionCamelopardalisthis direction
Star43 Cam60 ly
StarHR 2809100 ly
StarHR 3075140 ly
StarBeta Camstar
StarAlpha Camstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Camelopardalis
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.1To 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.