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 1396→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
1 Camelopardalis 1396 2 Camelopardalis 1396 3 Camelopardalis 1396 4 Camelopardalis 1396 5 Camelopardalis 1396 6 Camelopardalis 1396 7 Camelopardalis 1396 8 Camelopardalis 1396 9 Camelopardalis 1396 10 Camelopardalis 1396 11 Camelopardalis 1396 12 Camelopardalis 1396 13 Camelopardalis 1396 14 Camelopardalis 1396 15 Camelopardalis 1396 16 Camelopardalis 1396 17 Camelopardalis 1396 18 Camelopardalis 1396 19 Camelopardalis 1396 20 Camelopardalis 1396 21 Camelopardalis 1396 22 Camelopardalis 1396 23 Camelopardalis 1396 24 Camelopardalis 1396 25 Camelopardalis 1396 26 Camelopardalis 1396 27 Camelopardalis 1396 28 Camelopardalis 1396 1 Chamaeleon 1396 18 April 4237 19 April 4237 20 April 4237 21 April 4237 22 April 4237 23 April 4237 24 April 4237 25 April 4237 26 April 4237 27 April 4237 28 April 4237 29 April 4237 30 April 4237 1 May 4237 2 May 4237 3 May 4237 4 May 4237 5 May 4237 6 May 4237 7 May 4237 8 May 4237 9 May 4237 10 May 4237 11 May 4237 12 May 4237 13 May 4237 14 May 4237 15 May 4237 16 May 4237 17 May 4237
MS 785911 MS 785912 MS 785913 MS 785914 MS 785915 MS 785916 MS 785917 MS 785918 MS 785919 MS 785920 MS 785921 MS 785922 MS 785923 MS 785924 MS 785925 MS 785926 MS 785927 MS 785928 MS 785929 MS 785930 MS 785931 MS 785932 MS 785933 MS 785934 MS 785935 MS 785936 MS 785937 MS 785938 MS 785939 MD 807732 MD 807733 MD 807734 MD 807735 MD 807736 MD 807737 MD 807738 MD 807739 MD 807740 MD 807741 MD 807742 MD 807743 MD 807744 MD 807745 MD 807746 MD 807747 MD 807748 MD 807749 MD 807750 MD 807751 MD 807752 MD 807753 MD 807754 MD 807755 MD 807756 MD 807757 MD 807758 MD 807759 MD 807760 MD 807761