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 606→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
2425262728
1 Chamaeleon 606 2 Chamaeleon 606 3 Chamaeleon 606 4 Chamaeleon 606 5 Chamaeleon 606 6 Chamaeleon 606 7 Chamaeleon 606 8 Chamaeleon 606 9 Chamaeleon 606 10 Chamaeleon 606 11 Chamaeleon 606 12 Chamaeleon 606 13 Chamaeleon 606 14 Chamaeleon 606 15 Chamaeleon 606 16 Chamaeleon 606 17 Chamaeleon 606 18 Chamaeleon 606 19 Chamaeleon 606 20 Chamaeleon 606 21 Chamaeleon 606 22 Chamaeleon 606 23 Chamaeleon 606 24 Chamaeleon 606 25 Chamaeleon 606 26 Chamaeleon 606 27 Chamaeleon 606 28 Chamaeleon 606 1 Hydra 606 29 January 2751 30 January 2751 31 January 2751 1 February 2751 2 February 2751 3 February 2751 4 February 2751 5 February 2751 6 February 2751 7 February 2751 8 February 2751 9 February 2751 10 February 2751 11 February 2751 12 February 2751 13 February 2751 14 February 2751 15 February 2751 16 February 2751 17 February 2751 18 February 2751 19 February 2751 20 February 2751 21 February 2751 22 February 2751 23 February 2751 24 February 2751 25 February 2751 26 February 2751 27 February 2751
MS 257752 MS 257753 MS 257754 MS 257755 MS 257756 MS 257757 MS 257758 MS 257759 MS 257760 MS 257761 MS 257762 MS 257763 MS 257764 MS 257765 MS 257766 MS 257767 MS 257768 MS 257769 MS 257770 MS 257771 MS 257772 MS 257773 MS 257774 MS 257775 MS 257776 MS 257777 MS 257778 MS 257779 MS 257780 MD 264902 MD 264903 MD 264904 MD 264905 MD 264906 MD 264907 MD 264908 MD 264909 MD 264910 MD 264911 MD 264912 MD 264913 MD 264914 MD 264915 MD 264916 MD 264917 MD 264918 MD 264919 MD 264920 MD 264921 MD 264922 MD 264923 MD 264924 MD 264925 MD 264926 MD 264927 MD 264928 MD 264929 MD 264930 MD 264931