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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.
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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.
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