K-type star · orange

8 Cam

8 Cam is an orange in the constellation Camelopardalis 575 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,852 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 99.27× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 575 years ago.

575 lybrightness mag 6.09K4III

Also catalogued as HR 1588 · HD 31579 · HIP 23216

3,852 K
temperature
6.09
apparent magnitude
99.27× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
575 years
at light speed from Earth
0.67×
as hot as the Sun
99.27×
the Sun's light output
-0.14
absolute magnitude
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8 CamK-type
Sky regionCamelopardalisthis direction
Star5 Cam50 ly
StarHD 3822997 ly
StarHR 1722110 ly
StarBeta Camstar
StarAlpha Camstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Camelopardalis
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To 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.