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Alpha Chamaeleontis

Star in the constellation Chamaleon

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Alpha Chamaeleontis is a solitary star in the southern circumpolar constellation of Chamaeleon. Its name is a Bayer designation that is Latinized from α Chamaeleontis, and abbreviated Alpha Cha or α Cha. This star is bright enough to be seen with the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.06. With an annual parallax shift of 51.32 mas, it is located 63.6 light years from the Sun. The star is drifting closer with a radial velocity of −13 km/s, and is predicted to come to within 47 light-years in 666,000 years.

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The public source identifies “Alpha Chamaeleontis” as star in the constellation Chamaleon. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Alpha, Chamaeleontis and Star.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 92-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Alpha, Chamaeleontis and Star providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Alpha Chamaeleontis” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.