43 Camelopardalis

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Star in the constellation Camelopardalis

title: "43 Camelopardalis" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["b-type-giants", "camelopardalis", "durchmusterung-objects", "flamsteed-objects", "henry-draper-catalogue-objects", "hipparcos-objects", "bright-star-catalogue-objects"] description: "Star in the constellation Camelopardalis" topic_path: "general/b-type-giants" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/43_Camelopardalis" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Star in the constellation Camelopardalis ::

| image = |image=Camelopardalis constellation map.svg|alt=|float=center|width=280 |label=|position=right |mark=Red circle.svg|mark_width=10|mark_link=43 Camelopardalis |x=325|y=675 | caption = Location of 43 Camelopardalis (circled in red) | epoch = J2000.0 | constell = Camelopardalis | ra = | dec = | appmag_v = 5.11 | type = | class = B7 III | b-v = | variable = | radial_v = | prop_mo_ra = +5.001 | prop_mo_dec = +7.450 | parallax = 3.0749 | p_error = 0.1698 | parallax_footnote = | absmag_v = −2.26 | source = | mass = | radius = 4.4 | gravity = | luminosity = 724 | temperature = 13,183 | metal_fe = | rotational_velocity = 190 | age_myr = | names = | Simbad = 43+Cam

43 Camelopardalis is a single star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Camelopardalis, located roughly 1,060 light years away from the Sun based on parallax. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, blue-white hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.11. This object is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −21 km/s.

The stellar classification of 43 Camelopardalis is B7 III, matching that of a blue giant. It is spinning rapidly with a projected rotational velocity of 190 km/s. The star has five times the mass of the Sun and about 4.4 times the Sun's radius. It is radiating 724 times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 13,183 K.

Chinese name

In Chinese language, 紫微右垣 (Zǐ Wēi Yòu Yuán), meaning Right Wall of Purple Forbidden Enclosure, refers to an asterism consisting of 43 Camelopardalis, α Draconis, κ Draconis, λ Draconis, 24 Ursae Majoris, α Camelopardalis and BK Camelopardalis. Consequently, 43 Camelopardalis itself is known as 紫微右垣五 (Zǐ Wēi Yòu Yuán wǔ, ), 上衛 (Shǎngwèi) is westernized into Shang Wei by R.H. Allen, the meaning is "Higher Guard", but it is not clearly designated. The identification of Shangwei has varied across historical sources, and the IAU Working Group on Star Names has adopted it as a name for HD 42818, based on an older identification.

References

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| title=XHIP: An extended hipparcos compilation | last1=Anderson | first1=E. | last2=Francis | first2=Ch. | journal=Astronomy Letters | postscript=. | volume=38 | issue=5 | pages=331 | year=2012 | bibcode=2012AstL...38..331A | arxiv=1108.4971 | doi=10.1134/S1063773712050015 | s2cid=119257644 }}

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| last=Lesh | first=Janet Rountree | title=The Kinematics of the Gould Belt: an Expanding Group? | journal=Astrophysical Journal Supplement | volume=17 | page=371 | date=December 1968 | doi=10.1086/190179 | bibcode=1968ApJS...17..371L | doi-access=free}}

References

  1. {{in lang. zh ''中國星座神話'', written by 陳久金. Published by 台灣書房出版有限公司, 2005, {{ISBN. 978-986-7332-25-7.
  2. representing {{lang. zh. 上衛 ({{lang. zh-Latn. Shǎngwèi), meaning ''First Imperial Guard''.[http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/Museum/Space/Research/StarName/e_research_chinengstarzone_b.htm#PrupleForbiddenEnclosure English-Chinese Glossary of Chinese Star Regions, Asterisms and Star Name] {{webarchive. link. (2008-09-24 , Hong Kong Space Museum. Accessed on line November 23, 2010.)
  3. {{cite DR2. 1103352840367457792
  4. "43 Cam".
  5. "Shangwei (上衛)". [[IAU Working Group on Star Names]].
  6. "IAU Catalog of Star Names".

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