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 1129→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
232425262728
1 Camelopardalis 1129 2 Camelopardalis 1129 3 Camelopardalis 1129 4 Camelopardalis 1129 5 Camelopardalis 1129 6 Camelopardalis 1129 7 Camelopardalis 1129 8 Camelopardalis 1129 9 Camelopardalis 1129 10 Camelopardalis 1129 11 Camelopardalis 1129 12 Camelopardalis 1129 13 Camelopardalis 1129 14 Camelopardalis 1129 15 Camelopardalis 1129 16 Camelopardalis 1129 17 Camelopardalis 1129 18 Camelopardalis 1129 19 Camelopardalis 1129 20 Camelopardalis 1129 21 Camelopardalis 1129 22 Camelopardalis 1129 23 Camelopardalis 1129 24 Camelopardalis 1129 25 Camelopardalis 1129 26 Camelopardalis 1129 27 Camelopardalis 1129 28 Camelopardalis 1129 1 Chamaeleon 1129 17 December 3734 18 December 3734 19 December 3734 20 December 3734 21 December 3734 22 December 3734 23 December 3734 24 December 3734 25 December 3734 26 December 3734 27 December 3734 28 December 3734 29 December 3734 30 December 3734 31 December 3734 1 January 3735 2 January 3735 3 January 3735 4 January 3735 5 January 3735 6 January 3735 7 January 3735 8 January 3735 9 January 3735 10 January 3735 11 January 3735 12 January 3735 13 January 3735 14 January 3735 15 January 3735
MS 607396 MS 607397 MS 607398 MS 607399 MS 607400 MS 607401 MS 607402 MS 607403 MS 607404 MS 607405 MS 607406 MS 607407 MS 607408 MS 607409 MS 607410 MS 607411 MS 607412 MS 607413 MS 607414 MS 607415 MS 607416 MS 607417 MS 607418 MS 607419 MS 607420 MS 607421 MS 607422 MS 607423 MS 607424 MD 624258 MD 624259 MD 624260 MD 624261 MD 624262 MD 624263 MD 624264 MD 624265 MD 624266 MD 624267 MD 624268 MD 624269 MD 624270 MD 624271 MD 624272 MD 624273 MD 624274 MD 624275 MD 624276 MD 624277 MD 624278 MD 624279 MD 624280 MD 624281 MD 624282 MD 624283 MD 624284 MD 624285 MD 624286 MD 624287