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Its story
40 Camelopardalis is an orange K-type star 492 light-years away, in Camelopardalis —that constellation as vast as it is unassuming, filling the space between the Big Dipper and Cassiopeia. Its light, cooler than the Sun's, carries the golden-russet tint of K giants, hidden in a stretch of sky nearly empty to the naked eye. It is one of those faint beacons that help trace the figure invented by Plancius in 1612.
- Constellation
- Camelopardalis
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.37
- Distance
- 492.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 93.919° · Dec 59.999°
- Catalogue
- HIP 29730 · HD 42633
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