40 Camelopardalis is a single star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Camelopardalis, located around 600 light years distant from the Sun. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.37. This object is moving further from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of +8.6 km/s. There is a magnitude 11.50 optical companion, located at an angular separation of 104.20″ along a position angle of 355° from 40 Camelopardalis, as of 2010.