Beta Chamaeleontis is the third-brightest star in the southern constellation of Chamaeleon. Its name is a Bayer designation that is Latinized from β Chamaeleontis, and abbreviated Beta Cha or β Cha. A solitary, suspected variable star, it is visible to the naked eye as a faint blue-white point of light with an apparent visual magnitude that has been measured ranging between 4.24 and 4.30. Parallax measurements yield a distance estimate of 298 light-years (91 pc) from the Sun. It is drifting further away with a radial velocity of +23 km/s.