Star profile
5 Camelopardalis
Hot blue starWhat is 5 Camelopardalis
5 Camelopardalis is a blue-white binary system 620 light-years away, a hot B-type star whose temperature far exceeds ten thousand degrees. It inhabits the Giraffe, the late, quiet circumpolar constellation traced by Plancius in 1613. Its light departed in the late fourteenth century, while Europe was still recovering from the Black Death.
Where it is and when to see it
5 Camelopardalis lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is December, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it never sets and culminates about 86° up.
- From New York it never sets and culminates about 75° up.
- From Sydney it culminates about 1° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 35° S.
It ranks no. 44 in brightness among the 75 stars of Camelopardalis in our catalogue. To find it, start from Beta Camelopardalis, the brightest: it lies about 5° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 620 years ago.
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Astronomical data for 5 Camelopardalis
- Constellation
- Camelopardalis
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.52
- Distance
- 620.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 73.763° · Dec 55.259°
- Catalogue
- HIP 22854 · HD 30958
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Other stars in Camelopardalis
Camelopardalis has 75 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Beta Camelopardalis4.03
- HIP 162284.21
- Alpha Camelopardalis4.26
- HIP 242545.44
- HIP 324395.44
- HIP 226265.47
- HIP 513845.52
- HIP 407935.55