IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine (Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg)
Chamaeleon
The Chameleon
OriginKeyser/de Houtman
AbbreviationCha
GenitiveChamaeleontis
Pronunciation/kəˈmiːliən/ kə-MEE-lee-ən genitive /kəˌmiːliˈɒntɪs/ kə-MEE-lee-ON-tiss
cuh-MEAL-yun/cuh-MEAL-ee-un
LocationSouthern Hemisphere
Primary Starα Chamaeleontis
Right Ascention 10h 35m Declination -78° 38'
Martian Solar Lag δ(🜨→♂) +0.304 h (18.3 min)
Dutch navigators Keyser and de Houtman created the constellation Chamaeleon, “The Chameleon” at the end of the sixteenth century. Chameleons are small lizards that can change their colors based on their environments. They are common in Madagascar where the Dutch fleet resupplied on their way to the East Indies.
www.underthesky.com
Chamaeleon as depicted by Johannes Hevelius in his Firmamentum Sobiescianum sive Uranographia (1687). Via www.underthenightsky.com.
←Chamaeleon -95→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728
1 Chamaeleon -95 2 Chamaeleon -95 3 Chamaeleon -95 4 Chamaeleon -95 5 Chamaeleon -95 6 Chamaeleon -95 7 Chamaeleon -95 8 Chamaeleon -95 9 Chamaeleon -95 10 Chamaeleon -95 11 Chamaeleon -95 12 Chamaeleon -95 13 Chamaeleon -95 14 Chamaeleon -95 15 Chamaeleon -95 16 Chamaeleon -95 17 Chamaeleon -95 18 Chamaeleon -95 19 Chamaeleon -95 20 Chamaeleon -95 21 Chamaeleon -95 22 Chamaeleon -95 23 Chamaeleon -95 24 Chamaeleon -95 25 Chamaeleon -95 26 Chamaeleon -95 27 Chamaeleon -95 28 Chamaeleon -95 1 Draco -94 21 April 1432 22 April 1432 23 April 1432 24 April 1432 25 April 1432 26 April 1432 27 April 1432 28 April 1432 29 April 1432 30 April 1432 1 May 1432 2 May 1432 3 May 1432 4 May 1432 5 May 1432 6 May 1432 7 May 1432 8 May 1432 9 May 1432 10 May 1432 11 May 1432 12 May 1432 13 May 1432 14 May 1432 15 May 1432 16 May 1432 17 May 1432 18 May 1432 19 May 1432
MS -210902 MS -210903 MS -210904 MS -210905 MS -210906 MS -210907 MS -210908 MS -210909 MS -210910 MS -210911 MS -210912 MS -210913 MS -210914 MS -210915 MS -210916 MS -210917 MS -210918 MS -210919 MS -210920 MS -210921 MS -210922 MS -210923 MS -210924 MS -210925 MS -210926 MS -210927 MS -210928 MS -210929 MS -210874 MD -216770 MD -216769 MD -216768 MD -216767 MD -216766 MD -216765 MD -216764 MD -216763 MD -216762 MD -216761 MD -216760 MD -216759 MD -216758 MD -216757 MD -216756 MD -216755 MD -216754 MD -216753 MD -216752 MD -216751 MD -216750 MD -216749 MD -216748 MD -216747 MD -216746 MD -216745 MD -216744 MD -216743 MD -216742