A-type star · white star

49 Cam

49 Cam is a white star in the constellation Camelopardalis 315 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,712 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 20.46× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 315 years ago.

315 lybrightness mag 6.50F0p SrEu

Also catalogued as HR 2977 · HD 62140 · HIP 37934

7,712 K
temperature
6.50
apparent magnitude
20.46× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0p SrEu
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
315 years
at light speed from Earth
1.34×
as hot as the Sun
20.46×
the Sun's light output
1.57
absolute magnitude
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49 CamA-type
Sky regionCamelopardalisthis direction
Star53 Cam18 ly
Star51 Cam20 ly
Star29 Lyn31 ly
StarBeta Camstar
StarAlpha Camstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Camelopardalis
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.