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 1141→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28
1 Camelopardalis 1141 2 Camelopardalis 1141 3 Camelopardalis 1141 4 Camelopardalis 1141 5 Camelopardalis 1141 6 Camelopardalis 1141 7 Camelopardalis 1141 8 Camelopardalis 1141 9 Camelopardalis 1141 10 Camelopardalis 1141 11 Camelopardalis 1141 12 Camelopardalis 1141 13 Camelopardalis 1141 14 Camelopardalis 1141 15 Camelopardalis 1141 16 Camelopardalis 1141 17 Camelopardalis 1141 18 Camelopardalis 1141 19 Camelopardalis 1141 20 Camelopardalis 1141 21 Camelopardalis 1141 22 Camelopardalis 1141 23 Camelopardalis 1141 24 Camelopardalis 1141 25 Camelopardalis 1141 26 Camelopardalis 1141 27 Camelopardalis 1141 28 Camelopardalis 1141 1 Chamaeleon 1141 16 July 3757 17 July 3757 18 July 3757 19 July 3757 20 July 3757 21 July 3757 22 July 3757 23 July 3757 24 July 3757 25 July 3757 26 July 3757 27 July 3757 28 July 3757 29 July 3757 30 July 3757 31 July 3757 1 August 3757 2 August 3757 3 August 3757 4 August 3757 5 August 3757 6 August 3757 7 August 3757 8 August 3757 9 August 3757 10 August 3757 11 August 3757 12 August 3757 13 August 3757 14 August 3757
MS 615420 MS 615421 MS 615422 MS 615423 MS 615424 MS 615425 MS 615426 MS 615427 MS 615428 MS 615429 MS 615430 MS 615431 MS 615432 MS 615433 MS 615434 MS 615435 MS 615436 MS 615437 MS 615438 MS 615439 MS 615440 MS 615441 MS 615442 MS 615443 MS 615444 MS 615445 MS 615446 MS 615447 MS 615448 MD 632505 MD 632506 MD 632507 MD 632508 MD 632509 MD 632510 MD 632511 MD 632512 MD 632513 MD 632514 MD 632515 MD 632516 MD 632517 MD 632518 MD 632519 MD 632520 MD 632521 MD 632522 MD 632523 MD 632524 MD 632525 MD 632526 MD 632527 MD 632528 MD 632529 MD 632530 MD 632531 MD 632532 MD 632533 MD 632534