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 1266→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728
1 Camelopardalis 1266 2 Camelopardalis 1266 3 Camelopardalis 1266 4 Camelopardalis 1266 5 Camelopardalis 1266 6 Camelopardalis 1266 7 Camelopardalis 1266 8 Camelopardalis 1266 9 Camelopardalis 1266 10 Camelopardalis 1266 11 Camelopardalis 1266 12 Camelopardalis 1266 13 Camelopardalis 1266 14 Camelopardalis 1266 15 Camelopardalis 1266 16 Camelopardalis 1266 17 Camelopardalis 1266 18 Camelopardalis 1266 19 Camelopardalis 1266 20 Camelopardalis 1266 21 Camelopardalis 1266 22 Camelopardalis 1266 23 Camelopardalis 1266 24 Camelopardalis 1266 25 Camelopardalis 1266 26 Camelopardalis 1266 27 Camelopardalis 1266 28 Camelopardalis 1266 1 Chamaeleon 1266 18 September 3992 19 September 3992 20 September 3992 21 September 3992 22 September 3992 23 September 3992 24 September 3992 25 September 3992 26 September 3992 27 September 3992 28 September 3992 29 September 3992 30 September 3992 1 October 3992 2 October 3992 3 October 3992 4 October 3992 5 October 3992 6 October 3992 7 October 3992 8 October 3992 9 October 3992 10 October 3992 11 October 3992 12 October 3992 13 October 3992 14 October 3992 15 October 3992 16 October 3992
MS 698994 MS 698995 MS 698996 MS 698997 MS 698998 MS 698999 MS 699000 MS 699001 MS 699002 MS 699003 MS 699004 MS 699005 MS 699006 MS 699007 MS 699008 MS 699009 MS 699010 MS 699011 MS 699012 MS 699013 MS 699014 MS 699015 MS 699016 MS 699017 MS 699018 MS 699019 MS 699020 MS 699021 MS 699022 MD 718401 MD 718402 MD 718403 MD 718404 MD 718405 MD 718406 MD 718407 MD 718408 MD 718409 MD 718410 MD 718411 MD 718412 MD 718413 MD 718414 MD 718415 MD 718416 MD 718417 MD 718418 MD 718419 MD 718420 MD 718421 MD 718422 MD 718423 MD 718424 MD 718425 MD 718426 MD 718427 MD 718428 MD 718429