B-type star · blue-white star
7 Cam
7 Cam is a blue-white star in the constellation Camelopardalis 372 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,342 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 191× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 372 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1568 · HD 31278 · HIP 23040
10,342 K
temperature
4.43
apparent magnitude
191× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
372 years
at light speed from Earth
1.79×
as hot as the Sun
191×
the Sun's light output
-0.85
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.