Alpha Camelopardalis

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α Camelopardalis
Observation data
Epoch J2000.0
Constellation
(pronunciation)		 Camelopardalis
Right ascension 04h 54m 03.0113s
Declination +66° 20' 33.641"
Apparent magnitude (V) 4.301
Distance > 6900 ly
(> 2100 pc)
Spectral type O9.5Iae
Other designations
9 Camelopardalis, BD+66°358, HD 30614, HIP 22783, HR 1542, IRAS 04490+6615, SAO 13298, GC 5924

Alpha Camelopardalis (α Cam / α Camelopardalis) is a blue supergiant star in the constellation Camelopardalis. It is has an apparent magnitude of +4.26 and is more than 6900 light years from Earth.

[edit] References

  1. SIMBAD Query Result
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