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| IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine (Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg) |
| Camelopardalis |
| The Giraffe |
| Origin | Plancius |
| Abbreviation | Cam |
| Genitive | Camelopardalis |
| Pronunciation | /kəˌmɛləˈpɑːrdəlɪs/ kə-MEL-ə-PAR-də-lis
genitive the same |
| cuh-MEL-oh-PAR-duh-liss |
| Location | Northern Hemisphere |
| Primary Star | β 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. |
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