Star profile
42 Camelopardalis
Hot blue starWhat is 42 Camelopardalis
42 Camelopardalis is a fifty-million-year-old blue B4 subgiant, six and a half times the Sun's mass and spinning at more than a hundred kilometres per second at its equator. Its peculiar velocity through space marks it as a candidate runaway: most likely it was flung from its birth cluster by the explosion of a former companion. It now burns alone 924 light-years away, in the dim northern Giraffe.
Where it is and when to see it
42 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: the Sun sits at the opposite point of the sky and the star culminates around midnight. How high it climbs above the horizon depends on the latitude you watch from.
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Astronomical data for 42 Camelopardalis
- Constellation
- Camelopardalis
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.14
- Distance
- 924.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 102.738° · Dec 67.572°
- Catalogue
- HIP 32864 · HD 48879
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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 162925.09
- 43 Camelopardalis5.11
- HIP 158905.13
- HIP 595045.14
- HIP 199495.20