B-type star · blue-white star

43 Cam

43 Cam is a blue-white star in the constellation Camelopardalis 979 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,814 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 710× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 979 years ago.

979 lybrightness mag 5.11B7III

Also catalogued as HR 2511 · HD 49340 · HIP 33104

11,814 K
temperature
5.11
apparent magnitude
710× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B7III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
979 years
at light speed from Earth
2.05×
as hot as the Sun
710×
the Sun's light output
-2.28
absolute magnitude
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43 CamB-type
Sky regionCamelopardalisthis direction
Star42 Cam60 ly
StarHR 2809150 ly
StarHR 3075150 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.