Observation data Epoch J2000.0 Equinox J2000.0 (ICRS)
Constellation
Camelopardalis
Right ascension
07h 46m 40.07812s[1]
Declination
+65° 27′ 20.4266″[1]
Apparent magnitude (V)
5.93±0.01[2]
Characteristics
Spectral type
K2 III[3]
B−V color index
+1.18[4]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)
−30.9±0.2[5] km/s
Proper motion (μ)
RA: +27.601 mas/yr[1] Dec.: +17.656 mas/yr[1]
Parallax (π)
9.7528 ± 0.0372 mas[1]
Distance
334 ± 1 ly (102.5 ± 0.4 pc)
Absolute magnitude (MV)
+0.92[6]
Details
Mass
1.08[7]M☉
Radius
11.8+0.3 −0.9[8]R☉
Luminosity
57.2±0.4[8]L☉
Surface gravity (log g)
2.25[9] cgs
Temperature
4,626±122[10] K
Metallicity [Fe/H]
+0.00[11] dex
Age
9.25[7] Gyr
Other designations
51 Cam, AG+65°409, BD+65°593, FK5 2602, GC 10420, HD 62066, HIP 37949, HR 2975, SAO 14321[12]
Database references
SIMBAD
data
51 Camelopardalis (51 Cam), also designated as HD 62066, is a solitary star located in the northern circumpolar constellation Camelopardalis. It is faintly visible to the naked eye as an orange-hued point of light with an apparent magnitude of 5.93.[2] Gaia DR3 parallax measurements imply a distance of 334 light-years[1] and it is currently receding with a heliocentric radial velocity of −30.9 km/s.[5] At its current distance, 51 Cam's brightness is diminished by 0.17 magnitudes due to interstellar extinction[13] and it has an absolute magnitude of +0.92.[6]
51 Cam has a stellar classification of K2 III,[3] indicating that it is an evolved K-type giant star. It has a comparable mass to the Sun[7] but it has more than twice the latter's age at 9.25 billion years.[7] As a result, it has exhausted hydrogen at its core and it has expanded to 11.8 times the radius of the Sun.[8] It radiates 57.2 times the luminosity of the Sun[8] from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,626 K.[10] 51 Cam has a solar metallicity at [Fe/H] = +0.00.[11]
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51Camelopardalis (51 Cam), also designated as HD 62066, is a solitary star located in the northern circumpolar constellation Camelopardalis. It is faintly...
one-species hypothesis. The Rothschild giraffe is subsumed into G. camelopardaliscamelopardalis. The following table compares the different hypotheses for giraffe...
and phylogeny of giraffes Giraffa camelopardalis" (PDF). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa. 58 (1): 51–73. doi:10.1080/00359190309519935...
This is the list of notable stars in the constellation Camelopardalis, sorted by decreasing brightness. List of stars by constellation (in Chinese) AEEA...
BE Camelopardalis is a solitary variable star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Camelopardalis. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, red-hued...
Camelopardalis, Latinized from γ Camelopardalis, is a suspected wide binary star system in the northern circumpolar constellation of Camelopardalis....
18 Camelopardalis is a yellow-white-hued star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Camelopardalis. It has an apparent visual magnitude is 6.44...
and phylogeny of giraffes Giraffa camelopardalis" (PDF). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa. 58 (1): 51–73. doi:10.1080/00359190309519935...
7 Camelopardalis is a multiple star system in the northern circumpolar constellation of Camelopardalis. It is located approximately 370 light years from...
Draconis, Lambda Draconis, 24 Ursae Majoris, 43 Camelopardalis, Alpha Camelopardalis and BK Camelopardalis. Consequently, the Chinese name for Alpha Draconis...
36 Camelopardalis is a single star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Camelopardalis. It is visible to the naked eye as a dim point of light...
galaxy located around 168 million light-years away in the constellation Camelopardalis. NGC 2523 was discovered in 1885 by the American astronomer Edward Swift...
is a solitary star located in the northern circumpolar constellation Camelopardalis. It is faintly visible to the naked eye as an orange-hued star with...
camelopardalis. Morten Thrane Brünnich classified the genus Giraffa in 1772. Once considered a subspecies of the conglomerate Giraffa camelopardalis species...
is a binary star located in the northern circumpolar constellation Camelopardalis. The visible component is faintly visible to the naked eye as a white-hued...
light-years' distance of the star Gliese 445, currently in the constellation Camelopardalis, in about 40,000 years. Carl Sagan noted that "The spacecraft will be...
is a solitary star located in the northern circumpolar constellation Camelopardalis. It is faintly visible to the naked eye as a red hued point of light...
HD 49878 (M Camelopardalis) is a single star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Camelopardalis. It has an orange hue and is faintly visible to...
is a binary star located in the northern circumpolar constellation Camelopardalis. It has a combined apparent magnitude of 5.82, making it faintly visible...
located in the northern circumpolar constellation Camelopardalis, the giraffe, near β Camelopardalis. The visible component is faintly visible to the naked...
named this star Telescopica in Auriga. Flamsteed catalogued it as 35 Camelopardalis Heveliana, which is the name James Bradley continued to use, although...
galaxy located around 168 million light-years away in the constellation Camelopardalis. NGC 2523B was discovered in 1885 by the American astronomer Edward...
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