We use cookies to deliver essential features and to measure their performance. Learn more.
Help us keep TheSkyLive 100% free & ads-free, donate now!
Home
Search Objects
Major Solar System Objects
Comets
Asteroids
Spacecrafts
Star Maps
Orbits
public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 7:16 
Transit: 12:14 
Sunset: 17:12
wb_twilight   (Nautical Twilight)  
What's Visible Now • Tonight Timeline
Search  close
All Constellations » Chamaeleon » 

γ Chamaeleontis (gamma Chamaeleontis)

Below the horizon.  Never rises today
Alt: -52.78°   Az: 161.73°   Direction: South-South-East

γ Chamaeleontis is a variable hypergiant star of spectral class M0 in the constellation of Chamaeleon.

γ Chamaeleontis visual magnitude is 4.11. Because of its moderate brightness, γ Chamaeleontis is easily visible to the naked eye from locations with dark skies, while it might be barely visible, or not visible at all, from light-polluted skies.

Image of γ Chamaeleontis (gamma Chamaeleontis) star
DSS2 image of γ Chamaeleontis. The red arrow shows the motion of γ Chamaeleontis during the next 10000 years (-7.00 arcmin in Right Ascension and 2.33 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

10h 35m 45s
-78° 44’ 17”
17h 04m 51s
03h 40m 36s

J2000

10h 35m 28s
-78° 36’ 28”

Galactic Coordinates

296.28°
-17.53°

Finder Chart

loader
  Loading map...
Finder chart for γ Chamaeleontis (gamma Chamaeleontis).

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.11
Hypergiant

-1.40
M0III
3677K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where γ Chamaeleontis is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of γ Chamaeleontis. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

γ Chamaeleontis is distant 413.18 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 22 kilometers per second.

126.74
413.18
-22 km/s
-0.042 arcsec/y
0.014"/y

Alternative Designations

γ Chamaeleontis
(gamma Chamaeleontis)
SAO256731
SAO256731

Visibility from Your Location

γ Chamaeleontis (gamma Chamaeleontis) is currently not visible from Greenwich, UK