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 -320→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728
1 Camelopardalis -320 2 Camelopardalis -320 3 Camelopardalis -320 4 Camelopardalis -320 5 Camelopardalis -320 6 Camelopardalis -320 7 Camelopardalis -320 8 Camelopardalis -320 9 Camelopardalis -320 10 Camelopardalis -320 11 Camelopardalis -320 12 Camelopardalis -320 13 Camelopardalis -320 14 Camelopardalis -320 15 Camelopardalis -320 16 Camelopardalis -320 17 Camelopardalis -320 18 Camelopardalis -320 19 Camelopardalis -320 20 Camelopardalis -320 21 Camelopardalis -320 22 Camelopardalis -320 23 Camelopardalis -320 24 Camelopardalis -320 25 Camelopardalis -320 26 Camelopardalis -320 27 Camelopardalis -320 28 Camelopardalis -320 2 Lupus -319 29 November 1008 30 November 1008 1 December 1008 2 December 1008 3 December 1008 4 December 1008 5 December 1008 6 December 1008 7 December 1008 8 December 1008 9 December 1008 10 December 1008 11 December 1008 12 December 1008 13 December 1008 14 December 1008 15 December 1008 16 December 1008 17 December 1008 18 December 1008 19 December 1008 20 December 1008 21 December 1008 22 December 1008 23 December 1008 24 December 1008 25 December 1008 26 December 1008 27 December 1008 28 December 1008
MS -361363 MS -361364 MS -361365 MS -361366 MS -361367 MS -361368 MS -361369 MS -361370 MS -361371 MS -361372 MS -361373 MS -361374 MS -361375 MS -361376 MS -361377 MS -361378 MS -361379 MS -361380 MS -361381 MS -361382 MS -361383 MS -361384 MS -361385 MS -361386 MS -361387 MS -361388 MS -361389 MS -361390 MS -361335 MD -371411 MD -371410 MD -371409 MD -371408 MD -371407 MD -371406 MD -371405 MD -371404 MD -371403 MD -371402 MD -371401 MD -371400 MD -371399 MD -371398 MD -371397 MD -371396 MD -371395 MD -371394 MD -371393 MD -371392 MD -371391 MD -371390 MD -371389 MD -371388 MD -371387 MD -371386 MD -371385 MD -371384 MD -371383 MD -371382