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 444→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
2425262728
1 Camelopardalis 444 2 Camelopardalis 444 3 Camelopardalis 444 4 Camelopardalis 444 5 Camelopardalis 444 6 Camelopardalis 444 7 Camelopardalis 444 8 Camelopardalis 444 9 Camelopardalis 444 10 Camelopardalis 444 11 Camelopardalis 444 12 Camelopardalis 444 13 Camelopardalis 444 14 Camelopardalis 444 15 Camelopardalis 444 16 Camelopardalis 444 17 Camelopardalis 444 18 Camelopardalis 444 19 Camelopardalis 444 20 Camelopardalis 444 21 Camelopardalis 444 22 Camelopardalis 444 23 Camelopardalis 444 24 Camelopardalis 444 25 Camelopardalis 444 26 Camelopardalis 444 27 Camelopardalis 444 28 Camelopardalis 444 1 Chamaeleon 444 19 March 2446 20 March 2446 21 March 2446 22 March 2446 23 March 2446 24 March 2446 25 March 2446 26 March 2446 27 March 2446 28 March 2446 29 March 2446 30 March 2446 31 March 2446 1 April 2446 2 April 2446 3 April 2446 4 April 2446 5 April 2446 6 April 2446 7 April 2446 8 April 2446 9 April 2446 10 April 2446 11 April 2446 12 April 2446 13 April 2446 14 April 2446 15 April 2446 16 April 2446 17 April 2446
MS 149413 MS 149414 MS 149415 MS 149416 MS 149417 MS 149418 MS 149419 MS 149420 MS 149421 MS 149422 MS 149423 MS 149424 MS 149425 MS 149426 MS 149427 MS 149428 MS 149429 MS 149430 MS 149431 MS 149432 MS 149433 MS 149434 MS 149435 MS 149436 MS 149437 MS 149438 MS 149439 MS 149440 MS 149441 MD 153553 MD 153554 MD 153555 MD 153556 MD 153557 MD 153558 MD 153559 MD 153560 MD 153561 MD 153562 MD 153563 MD 153564 MD 153565 MD 153566 MD 153567 MD 153568 MD 153569 MD 153570 MD 153571 MD 153572 MD 153573 MD 153574 MD 153575 MD 153576 MD 153577 MD 153578 MD 153579 MD 153580 MD 153581 MD 153582