Gamma Chamaeleontis is a solitary star located in the southern circumpolar constellation of Chamaeleon. Its name is a Bayer designation that is Latinized from ó Chamaeleontis, and abbreviated Gamma Cha or ó Cha. This star can faintly be seen with the naked eye on a dark night, having an apparent visual magnitude of 4.12. Based upon an annual parallax shift of , it is located around from the Sun. This star is drifting closer with a line of sight velocity component of âÂÂ22 km/s.
This is an evolved K-type giant star with a stellar classification of K5 III. It is a suspected variable star, with an amplitude of 0.01 magnitude. With 78 times the radius of the Sun, this star radiates 864 times the solar luminosity from its enlarged outer atmosphere at an effective temperature of 3,870 K.