17 Camelopardalis
{{Short description|Star in the constellation Camelopardalis}}
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{{Starbox observe
| epoch = J2000
| dec = {{DEC|+63|04|01.9891}}
| constell = Camelopardalis
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{{Starbox character
| type = AGB
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{{Starbox astrometry
| radial_v = {{Val|−20.89|0.23}}
| parallax = 3.0424
| p_error = 0.1380
| parallax_footnote = {{cite Gaia DR3|287221784689921280}}
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{{Starbox detail
| metal_fe =
| rotational_velocity =
| age_gyr =
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{{Starbox catalog
| names = {{odlist | NSV=2003 | F=17 Cam | BD=+62°759 | FK5=203 | HD=35583 | HIP=25769 | HR=1802 | SAO=13518 }}{{cite simbad | title=17 Cam | accessdate=2019-04-16 }}
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{{Starbox reference
| Simbad=17+Cam
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17 Camelopardalis is a single{{cite journal | last1=Eggleton | first1=P. P. | last2=Tokovinin | first2=A. A. | title=A catalogue of multiplicity among bright stellar systems | journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | volume=389 | issue=2 | pages=869–879 | date=September 2008 | doi=10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13596.x | doi-access=free | bibcode=2008MNRAS.389..869E | arxiv=0806.2878 | s2cid=14878976 }} star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Camelopardalis, located roughly 960 light years away from the Sun. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, red-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.44. This object is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −20 km/s.
This is an ageing red giant star, currently on the asymptotic giant branch,{{cite journal| last1=Eggen | first1=Olin J. | title=Asymptotic giant branch stars near the sun | journal=Astronomical Journal | volume=104 | issue=1 | pages=275–313 | doi=10.1086/116239 | bibcode=1992AJ....104..275E | date=July 1992}} with a stellar classification of M1IIIa. It is a suspected small amplitude variable.{{cite journal | bibcode=2004yCat.2250....0S | title=VizieR Online Data Catalog: Combined General Catalogue of Variable Stars (Samus+ 2004) | journal=VizieR On-line Data Catalog: II/250. Originally Published in: 2004yCat.2250....0S | volume=2250 | last1=Samus | first1=N. N. | last2=Durlevich | first2=O. V. | display-authors=etal | date=2004 }} The star has expanded to 100 times the Sun's radius and is radiating 3,230 times the luminosity of the Sun from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of {{val|3,852|ul=K|fmt=commas}}.
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