The 1Camelopardalis system is part of the Camelopardalis OB1stellar association, which is 820 pc away. 1Camelopardalis A is a hot massive star which has evolved away from the main sequence to become a giant. It was once reported to be a double-lined spectroscopic binary with an orbital period of 1.31 days, but this has not been confirmed since. 1Camelopardalis B is 10" away and is probably an early B class subgiant. An additional star was discovered using the CHARA array, and has a mean separation from 1Camelopardalis A of 26.16 mas.
There is an 11th magnitude star 150" away. It has been considered to be a member of a triple system, but Gaia observations show it to be an unrelated background object.
In 1982, Mikołaj Jerzykiewicz and Christiaan L. Sterken reported that 1Camelopardalis might be a variable star, but some subsequent studies failed to confirm that. Its brightness was convincingly shown to be variable when the Hipparcos data was analyzed. It was given its variable star designation, DL Camelopardalis, in 1999. 1Camelopardalis A is a variable star with a small amplitude. It has a likely period of 0.22132 days and is thought to be a β Cephei variable or slowly pulsating B-type star. Hipparcos photometry shows an amplitude of 0.035 magnitudes. It has a rotational velocity of 275km/s, one of the highest known.
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