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 -208→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728
1 Camelopardalis -208 2 Camelopardalis -208 3 Camelopardalis -208 4 Camelopardalis -208 5 Camelopardalis -208 6 Camelopardalis -208 7 Camelopardalis -208 8 Camelopardalis -208 9 Camelopardalis -208 10 Camelopardalis -208 11 Camelopardalis -208 12 Camelopardalis -208 13 Camelopardalis -208 14 Camelopardalis -208 15 Camelopardalis -208 16 Camelopardalis -208 17 Camelopardalis -208 18 Camelopardalis -208 19 Camelopardalis -208 20 Camelopardalis -208 21 Camelopardalis -208 22 Camelopardalis -208 23 Camelopardalis -208 24 Camelopardalis -208 25 Camelopardalis -208 26 Camelopardalis -208 27 Camelopardalis -208 28 Camelopardalis -208 1 Lupus -207 18 August 1219 19 August 1219 20 August 1219 21 August 1219 22 August 1219 23 August 1219 24 August 1219 25 August 1219 26 August 1219 27 August 1219 28 August 1219 29 August 1219 30 August 1219 31 August 1219 1 September 1219 2 September 1219 3 September 1219 4 September 1219 5 September 1219 6 September 1219 7 September 1219 8 September 1219 9 September 1219 10 September 1219 11 September 1219 12 September 1219 13 September 1219 14 September 1219 15 September 1219 16 September 1219
MS -286480 MS -286481 MS -286482 MS -286483 MS -286484 MS -286485 MS -286486 MS -286487 MS -286488 MS -286489 MS -286490 MS -286491 MS -286492 MS -286493 MS -286494 MS -286495 MS -286496 MS -286497 MS -286498 MS -286499 MS -286500 MS -286501 MS -286502 MS -286503 MS -286504 MS -286505 MS -286506 MS -286507 MS -286452 MD -294448 MD -294447 MD -294446 MD -294445 MD -294444 MD -294443 MD -294442 MD -294441 MD -294440 MD -294439 MD -294438 MD -294437 MD -294436 MD -294435 MD -294434 MD -294433 MD -294432 MD -294431 MD -294430 MD -294429 MD -294428 MD -294427 MD -294426 MD -294425 MD -294424 MD -294423 MD -294422 MD -294421 MD -294420 MD -294419