B-type star · blue-white star

42 Cam

924 lybrightness mag 5.14B4IV

Also catalogued as HR 2490 · HD 48879 · HIP 32864

12,529 K

temperature

5.14

apparent magnitude

614× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B4IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

924 years

at light speed from Earth

2.17×

as hot as the Sun

614×

the Sun's light output

-2.12

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

42 CamB-type

Sky regionCamelopardalisthis direction

Nearest stars

43 Cam →60 ly apart
HR 2809 →100 ly apart
HR 3075 →140 ly apart
17 Cam →160 ly apart
HR 2396 →160 ly apart
HR 3236 →180 ly apart

Bright stars in Camelopardalis

10Bet Cam →mag 4.0
9Alp Cam →mag 4.3
7 Cam →mag 4.4
Gam Cam →mag 4.6
3 Cam →mag 5.1
43 Cam →mag 5.1
31 Cam →mag 5.2
11 Cam →mag 5.2

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.1To 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.