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 12→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28
1 Camelopardalis 12 2 Camelopardalis 12 3 Camelopardalis 12 4 Camelopardalis 12 5 Camelopardalis 12 6 Camelopardalis 12 7 Camelopardalis 12 8 Camelopardalis 12 9 Camelopardalis 12 10 Camelopardalis 12 11 Camelopardalis 12 12 Camelopardalis 12 13 Camelopardalis 12 14 Camelopardalis 12 15 Camelopardalis 12 16 Camelopardalis 12 17 Camelopardalis 12 18 Camelopardalis 12 19 Camelopardalis 12 20 Camelopardalis 12 21 Camelopardalis 12 22 Camelopardalis 12 23 Camelopardalis 12 24 Camelopardalis 12 25 Camelopardalis 12 26 Camelopardalis 12 27 Camelopardalis 12 28 Camelopardalis 12 1 Chamaeleon 12 15 June 1633 16 June 1633 17 June 1633 18 June 1633 19 June 1633 20 June 1633 21 June 1633 22 June 1633 23 June 1633 24 June 1633 25 June 1633 26 June 1633 27 June 1633 28 June 1633 29 June 1633 30 June 1633 1 July 1633 2 July 1633 3 July 1633 4 July 1633 5 July 1633 6 July 1633 7 July 1633 8 July 1633 9 July 1633 10 July 1633 11 July 1633 12 July 1633 13 July 1633 14 July 1633
MS -139418 MS -139417 MS -139416 MS -139415 MS -139414 MS -139413 MS -139412 MS -139411 MS -139410 MS -139409 MS -139408 MS -139407 MS -139406 MS -139405 MS -139404 MS -139403 MS -139402 MS -139401 MS -139400 MS -139399 MS -139398 MS -139397 MS -139396 MS -139395 MS -139394 MS -139393 MS -139392 MS -139391 MS -139390 MD -143301 MD -143300 MD -143299 MD -143298 MD -143297 MD -143296 MD -143295 MD -143294 MD -143293 MD -143292 MD -143291 MD -143290 MD -143289 MD -143288 MD -143287 MD -143286 MD -143285 MD -143284 MD -143283 MD -143282 MD -143281 MD -143280 MD -143279 MD -143278 MD -143277 MD -143276 MD -143275 MD -143274 MD -143273 MD -143272