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Encyclopedia > Alpha Camelopardalis
α Camelopardalis
Observation data
Epoch J2000.0
Constellation 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. In astronomy, an epoch is a moment in time for which celestial coordinates or orbital elements are specified. ... The J2000. ... Orion is a remarkable constellation, visible from most places on the globe at one time or another during the year. ... Camelopardalis, Latin for giraffe, is the name of a large but faint northern constellation first recorded by Jakob Bartsch in 1624, but probably created earlier by Petrus Plancius. ... Right ascension (RA; symbol α: Greek letter alpha) is the astronomical term for one of the two coordinates of a point on the celestial sphere when using the equatorial coordinate system. ... In astronomy, declination (dec) is one of the two coordinates of the equatorial coordinate system, the other being either right ascension or hour angle. ... // Headline text HEY!! HOW ARE YOU ALL?? Its nice of you to come read this page. ... The distance between two points is the length of a straight line segment between them. ... A light year, abbreviated ly, is the distance light travels in one year: roughly 9. ... The parsec (symbol pc) is a unit of length used in astronomy. ... In astronomy, stellar classification is a classification of stars based initially on photospheric temperature and its associated spectral characteristics, and subsequently refined in terms of other characteristics. ... In astronomy, many stars are referred to simply by catalogue numbers. ... In astronomy, many stars are referred to simply by catalogue numbers. ... The Henry Draper Catalogue is an astronomy catalogue with astrometric and spectroscopic data about more than 225,000 stars. ... In astronomy, many stars are referred to simply by catalogue numbers. ... In astronomy, many stars are referred to simply by catalogue numbers. ... The Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) was a space-based observatory that performed a survey of the entire sky at infrared wavelengths. ... The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) is a research institute of the Smithsonian Institution headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where it is joined with the Harvard College Observatory (HCO) to form the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). ... Blue supergiants are supergiant stars of spectral type O. They are extremely hot and bright, with surface temperatures of between 20,000 - 50,000°C. They typically have 10 to 50 solar masses on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, and can have radii up to about 25 solar radii. ... STAR is an acronym for: Satellite Television Asian Region, or STAR TV Scientific and Technological Advanced Research Labs, a fictional research organization in the DC Comics universe. ... Orion is a remarkable constellation, visible from most places on the globe at one time or another during the year. ... Camelopardalis, Latin for giraffe, is the name of a large but faint northern constellation first recorded by Jakob Bartsch in 1624, but probably created earlier by Petrus Plancius. ... // Headline text HEY!! HOW ARE YOU ALL?? Its nice of you to come read this page. ... A light year, abbreviated ly, is the distance light travels in one year: roughly 9. ... Earth (often referred to as The Earth) is the third planet in the solar system in terms of distance from the Sun, and the fifth in order of size. ...


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