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 340→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728
1 Camelopardalis 340 2 Camelopardalis 340 3 Camelopardalis 340 4 Camelopardalis 340 5 Camelopardalis 340 6 Camelopardalis 340 7 Camelopardalis 340 8 Camelopardalis 340 9 Camelopardalis 340 10 Camelopardalis 340 11 Camelopardalis 340 12 Camelopardalis 340 13 Camelopardalis 340 14 Camelopardalis 340 15 Camelopardalis 340 16 Camelopardalis 340 17 Camelopardalis 340 18 Camelopardalis 340 19 Camelopardalis 340 20 Camelopardalis 340 21 Camelopardalis 340 22 Camelopardalis 340 23 Camelopardalis 340 24 Camelopardalis 340 25 Camelopardalis 340 26 Camelopardalis 340 27 Camelopardalis 340 28 Camelopardalis 340 1 Chamaeleon 340 20 July 2250 21 July 2250 22 July 2250 23 July 2250 24 July 2250 25 July 2250 26 July 2250 27 July 2250 28 July 2250 29 July 2250 30 July 2250 31 July 2250 1 August 2250 2 August 2250 3 August 2250 4 August 2250 5 August 2250 6 August 2250 7 August 2250 8 August 2250 9 August 2250 10 August 2250 11 August 2250 12 August 2250 13 August 2250 14 August 2250 15 August 2250 16 August 2250 17 August 2250 18 August 2250
MS 79879 MS 79880 MS 79881 MS 79882 MS 79883 MS 79884 MS 79885 MS 79886 MS 79887 MS 79888 MS 79889 MS 79890 MS 79891 MS 79892 MS 79893 MS 79894 MS 79895 MS 79896 MS 79897 MS 79898 MS 79899 MS 79900 MS 79901 MS 79902 MS 79903 MS 79904 MS 79905 MS 79906 MS 79907 MD 82088 MD 82089 MD 82090 MD 82091 MD 82092 MD 82093 MD 82094 MD 82095 MD 82096 MD 82097 MD 82098 MD 82099 MD 82100 MD 82101 MD 82102 MD 82103 MD 82104 MD 82105 MD 82106 MD 82107 MD 82108 MD 82109 MD 82110 MD 82111 MD 82112 MD 82113 MD 82114 MD 82115 MD 82116 MD 82117