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 -282→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728
1 Camelopardalis -282 2 Camelopardalis -282 3 Camelopardalis -282 4 Camelopardalis -282 5 Camelopardalis -282 6 Camelopardalis -282 7 Camelopardalis -282 8 Camelopardalis -282 9 Camelopardalis -282 10 Camelopardalis -282 11 Camelopardalis -282 12 Camelopardalis -282 13 Camelopardalis -282 14 Camelopardalis -282 15 Camelopardalis -282 16 Camelopardalis -282 17 Camelopardalis -282 18 Camelopardalis -282 19 Camelopardalis -282 20 Camelopardalis -282 21 Camelopardalis -282 22 Camelopardalis -282 23 Camelopardalis -282 24 Camelopardalis -282 25 Camelopardalis -282 26 Camelopardalis -282 27 Camelopardalis -282 28 Camelopardalis -282 1 Lupus -281 27 May 1080 28 May 1080 29 May 1080 30 May 1080 31 May 1080 1 June 1080 2 June 1080 3 June 1080 4 June 1080 5 June 1080 6 June 1080 7 June 1080 8 June 1080 9 June 1080 10 June 1080 11 June 1080 12 June 1080 13 June 1080 14 June 1080 15 June 1080 16 June 1080 17 June 1080 18 June 1080 19 June 1080 20 June 1080 21 June 1080 22 June 1080 23 June 1080 24 June 1080 25 June 1080
MS -335957 MS -335958 MS -335959 MS -335960 MS -335961 MS -335962 MS -335963 MS -335964 MS -335965 MS -335966 MS -335967 MS -335968 MS -335969 MS -335970 MS -335971 MS -335972 MS -335973 MS -335974 MS -335975 MS -335976 MS -335977 MS -335978 MS -335979 MS -335980 MS -335981 MS -335982 MS -335983 MS -335984 MS -335929 MD -345299 MD -345298 MD -345297 MD -345296 MD -345295 MD -345294 MD -345293 MD -345292 MD -345291 MD -345290 MD -345289 MD -345288 MD -345287 MD -345286 MD -345285 MD -345284 MD -345283 MD -345282 MD -345281 MD -345280 MD -345279 MD -345278 MD -345277 MD -345276 MD -345275 MD -345274 MD -345273 MD -345272 MD -345271 MD -345270