B-type star · blue-white star
Alpha Cam
Alpha Cam is a blue-white star in the constellation Camelopardalis. Its surface is about 10,226 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 172,186,857× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye.
brightness mag 4.26O9.5Ia SB:
Also catalogued as HR 1542 · HD 30614 · HIP 22783
10,226 K
temperature
4.26
apparent magnitude
172,186,857× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
O9.5Ia SB:
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
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at light speed from Earth
1.77×
as hot as the Sun
172,186,857×
the Sun's light output
-15.74
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.