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 -580→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728
1 Camelopardalis -580 2 Camelopardalis -580 3 Camelopardalis -580 4 Camelopardalis -580 5 Camelopardalis -580 6 Camelopardalis -580 7 Camelopardalis -580 8 Camelopardalis -580 9 Camelopardalis -580 10 Camelopardalis -580 11 Camelopardalis -580 12 Camelopardalis -580 13 Camelopardalis -580 14 Camelopardalis -580 15 Camelopardalis -580 16 Camelopardalis -580 17 Camelopardalis -580 18 Camelopardalis -580 19 Camelopardalis -580 20 Camelopardalis -580 21 Camelopardalis -580 22 Camelopardalis -580 23 Camelopardalis -580 24 Camelopardalis -580 25 Camelopardalis -580 26 Camelopardalis -580 27 Camelopardalis -580 28 Camelopardalis -580 2 Lupus -579 30 September 0519 1 October 0519 2 October 0519 3 October 0519 4 October 0519 5 October 0519 6 October 0519 7 October 0519 8 October 0519 9 October 0519 10 October 0519 11 October 0519 12 October 0519 13 October 0519 14 October 0519 15 October 0519 16 October 0519 17 October 0519 18 October 0519 19 October 0519 20 October 0519 21 October 0519 22 October 0519 23 October 0519 24 October 0519 25 October 0519 26 October 0519 27 October 0519 28 October 0519 29 October 0519
MS -535198 MS -535199 MS -535200 MS -535201 MS -535202 MS -535203 MS -535204 MS -535205 MS -535206 MS -535207 MS -535208 MS -535209 MS -535210 MS -535211 MS -535212 MS -535213 MS -535214 MS -535215 MS -535216 MS -535217 MS -535218 MS -535219 MS -535220 MS -535221 MS -535222 MS -535223 MS -535224 MS -535225 MS -535170 MD -550075 MD -550074 MD -550073 MD -550072 MD -550071 MD -550070 MD -550069 MD -550068 MD -550067 MD -550066 MD -550065 MD -550064 MD -550063 MD -550062 MD -550061 MD -550060 MD -550059 MD -550058 MD -550057 MD -550056 MD -550055 MD -550054 MD -550053 MD -550052 MD -550051 MD -550050 MD -550049 MD -550048 MD -550047 MD -550046