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 419→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
2425262728
1 Camelopardalis 419 2 Camelopardalis 419 3 Camelopardalis 419 4 Camelopardalis 419 5 Camelopardalis 419 6 Camelopardalis 419 7 Camelopardalis 419 8 Camelopardalis 419 9 Camelopardalis 419 10 Camelopardalis 419 11 Camelopardalis 419 12 Camelopardalis 419 13 Camelopardalis 419 14 Camelopardalis 419 15 Camelopardalis 419 16 Camelopardalis 419 17 Camelopardalis 419 18 Camelopardalis 419 19 Camelopardalis 419 20 Camelopardalis 419 21 Camelopardalis 419 22 Camelopardalis 419 23 Camelopardalis 419 24 Camelopardalis 419 25 Camelopardalis 419 26 Camelopardalis 419 27 Camelopardalis 419 28 Camelopardalis 419 1 Chamaeleon 419 6 March 2399 7 March 2399 8 March 2399 9 March 2399 10 March 2399 11 March 2399 12 March 2399 13 March 2399 14 March 2399 15 March 2399 16 March 2399 17 March 2399 18 March 2399 19 March 2399 20 March 2399 21 March 2399 22 March 2399 23 March 2399 24 March 2399 25 March 2399 26 March 2399 27 March 2399 28 March 2399 29 March 2399 30 March 2399 31 March 2399 1 April 2399 2 April 2399 3 April 2399 4 April 2399
MS 132697 MS 132698 MS 132699 MS 132700 MS 132701 MS 132702 MS 132703 MS 132704 MS 132705 MS 132706 MS 132707 MS 132708 MS 132709 MS 132710 MS 132711 MS 132712 MS 132713 MS 132714 MS 132715 MS 132716 MS 132717 MS 132718 MS 132719 MS 132720 MS 132721 MS 132722 MS 132723 MS 132724 MS 132725 MD 136373 MD 136374 MD 136375 MD 136376 MD 136377 MD 136378 MD 136379 MD 136380 MD 136381 MD 136382 MD 136383 MD 136384 MD 136385 MD 136386 MD 136387 MD 136388 MD 136389 MD 136390 MD 136391 MD 136392 MD 136393 MD 136394 MD 136395 MD 136396 MD 136397 MD 136398 MD 136399 MD 136400 MD 136401 MD 136402