IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine (Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg)
Camelopardalis
The Giraffe
OriginPlancius
AbbreviationCam
GenitiveCamelopardalis
Pronunciation/kəˌmɛləˈpɑːrdəlɪs/ kə-MEL-ə-PAR-də-lis genitive the same
cuh-MEL-oh-PAR-duh-liss
LocationNorthern Hemisphere
Primary Starβ Cam
Right Ascention 5h 04m Declination +60° 27'
Martian Solar Lag δ(🜨→♂) +0.146 h (8.8 min)
Camelopardalis, Latin for “the giraffe”, was invented by Dutchman Petrus Plancius in 1612. To the ancient Greeks, a giraffe was a “camel-leopard” because it had the head of a camel and the spots of a leopard. Jacob Bartsch, in 1624, included this constellation on his star maps and wrote that it represented the camel Rebecca rode to Jacob.
www.underthesky.com
Camelopardalis as depicted by Johannes Hevelius in his Firmamentum Sobiescianum sive Uranographia (1687). Source image provided by www.RareMaps.com — Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc. Via www.underthenightsky.com.
←Camelopardalis -132→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728
1 Camelopardalis -132 2 Camelopardalis -132 3 Camelopardalis -132 4 Camelopardalis -132 5 Camelopardalis -132 6 Camelopardalis -132 7 Camelopardalis -132 8 Camelopardalis -132 9 Camelopardalis -132 10 Camelopardalis -132 11 Camelopardalis -132 12 Camelopardalis -132 13 Camelopardalis -132 14 Camelopardalis -132 15 Camelopardalis -132 16 Camelopardalis -132 17 Camelopardalis -132 18 Camelopardalis -132 19 Camelopardalis -132 20 Camelopardalis -132 21 Camelopardalis -132 22 Camelopardalis -132 23 Camelopardalis -132 24 Camelopardalis -132 25 Camelopardalis -132 26 Camelopardalis -132 27 Camelopardalis -132 28 Camelopardalis -132 1 Lupus -131 12 August 1362 13 August 1362 14 August 1362 15 August 1362 16 August 1362 17 August 1362 18 August 1362 19 August 1362 20 August 1362 21 August 1362 22 August 1362 23 August 1362 24 August 1362 25 August 1362 26 August 1362 27 August 1362 28 August 1362 29 August 1362 30 August 1362 31 August 1362 1 September 1362 2 September 1362 3 September 1362 4 September 1362 5 September 1362 6 September 1362 7 September 1362 8 September 1362 9 September 1362
MS -235668 MS -235669 MS -235670 MS -235671 MS -235672 MS -235673 MS -235674 MS -235675 MS -235676 MS -235677 MS -235678 MS -235679 MS -235680 MS -235681 MS -235682 MS -235683 MS -235684 MS -235685 MS -235686 MS -235687 MS -235688 MS -235689 MS -235690 MS -235691 MS -235692 MS -235693 MS -235694 MS -235695 MS -235640 MD -242224 MD -242223 MD -242222 MD -242221 MD -242220 MD -242219 MD -242218 MD -242217 MD -242216 MD -242215 MD -242214 MD -242213 MD -242212 MD -242211 MD -242210 MD -242209 MD -242208 MD -242207 MD -242206 MD -242205 MD -242204 MD -242203 MD -242202 MD -242201 MD -242200 MD -242199 MD -242198 MD -242197 MD -242196