A-type star · white star

Gamma Cam

Gamma Cam is a white star in the constellation Camelopardalis 359 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,391 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 154× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 359 years ago.

359 lybrightness mag 4.59A2IVn

Also catalogued as HR 1148 · HD 23401 · HIP 17959

9,391 K
temperature
4.59
apparent magnitude
154× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2IVn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
359 years
at light speed from Earth
1.63×
as hot as the Sun
154×
the Sun's light output
-0.62
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.6To 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.