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 201→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
1 Camelopardalis 201 2 Camelopardalis 201 3 Camelopardalis 201 4 Camelopardalis 201 5 Camelopardalis 201 6 Camelopardalis 201 7 Camelopardalis 201 8 Camelopardalis 201 9 Camelopardalis 201 10 Camelopardalis 201 11 Camelopardalis 201 12 Camelopardalis 201 13 Camelopardalis 201 14 Camelopardalis 201 15 Camelopardalis 201 16 Camelopardalis 201 17 Camelopardalis 201 18 Camelopardalis 201 19 Camelopardalis 201 20 Camelopardalis 201 21 Camelopardalis 201 22 Camelopardalis 201 23 Camelopardalis 201 24 Camelopardalis 201 25 Camelopardalis 201 26 Camelopardalis 201 27 Camelopardalis 201 28 Camelopardalis 201 1 Chamaeleon 201 13 January 1989 14 January 1989 15 January 1989 16 January 1989 17 January 1989 18 January 1989 19 January 1989 20 January 1989 21 January 1989 22 January 1989 23 January 1989 24 January 1989 25 January 1989 26 January 1989 27 January 1989 28 January 1989 29 January 1989 30 January 1989 31 January 1989 1 February 1989 2 February 1989 3 February 1989 4 February 1989 5 February 1989 6 February 1989 7 February 1989 8 February 1989 9 February 1989 10 February 1989 11 February 1989
MS -13055 MS -13054 MS -13053 MS -13052 MS -13051 MS -13050 MS -13049 MS -13048 MS -13047 MS -13046 MS -13045 MS -13044 MS -13043 MS -13042 MS -13041 MS -13040 MS -13039 MS -13038 MS -13037 MS -13036 MS -13035 MS -13034 MS -13033 MS -13032 MS -13031 MS -13030 MS -13029 MS -13028 MS -13027 MD -13428 MD -13427 MD -13426 MD -13425 MD -13424 MD -13423 MD -13422 MD -13421 MD -13420 MD -13419 MD -13418 MD -13417 MD -13416 MD -13415 MD -13414 MD -13413 MD -13412 MD -13411 MD -13410 MD -13409 MD -13408 MD -13407 MD -13406 MD -13405 MD -13404 MD -13403 MD -13402 MD -13401 MD -13400 MD -13399