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 461→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728
1 Camelopardalis 461 2 Camelopardalis 461 3 Camelopardalis 461 4 Camelopardalis 461 5 Camelopardalis 461 6 Camelopardalis 461 7 Camelopardalis 461 8 Camelopardalis 461 9 Camelopardalis 461 10 Camelopardalis 461 11 Camelopardalis 461 12 Camelopardalis 461 13 Camelopardalis 461 14 Camelopardalis 461 15 Camelopardalis 461 16 Camelopardalis 461 17 Camelopardalis 461 18 Camelopardalis 461 19 Camelopardalis 461 20 Camelopardalis 461 21 Camelopardalis 461 22 Camelopardalis 461 23 Camelopardalis 461 24 Camelopardalis 461 25 Camelopardalis 461 26 Camelopardalis 461 27 Camelopardalis 461 28 Camelopardalis 461 1 Chamaeleon 461 13 March 2478 14 March 2478 15 March 2478 16 March 2478 17 March 2478 18 March 2478 19 March 2478 20 March 2478 21 March 2478 22 March 2478 23 March 2478 24 March 2478 25 March 2478 26 March 2478 27 March 2478 28 March 2478 29 March 2478 30 March 2478 31 March 2478 1 April 2478 2 April 2478 3 April 2478 4 April 2478 5 April 2478 6 April 2478 7 April 2478 8 April 2478 9 April 2478 10 April 2478 11 April 2478
MS 160779 MS 160780 MS 160781 MS 160782 MS 160783 MS 160784 MS 160785 MS 160786 MS 160787 MS 160788 MS 160789 MS 160790 MS 160791 MS 160792 MS 160793 MS 160794 MS 160795 MS 160796 MS 160797 MS 160798 MS 160799 MS 160800 MS 160801 MS 160802 MS 160803 MS 160804 MS 160805 MS 160806 MS 160807 MD 165235 MD 165236 MD 165237 MD 165238 MD 165239 MD 165240 MD 165241 MD 165242 MD 165243 MD 165244 MD 165245 MD 165246 MD 165247 MD 165248 MD 165249 MD 165250 MD 165251 MD 165252 MD 165253 MD 165254 MD 165255 MD 165256 MD 165257 MD 165258 MD 165259 MD 165260 MD 165261 MD 165262 MD 165263 MD 165264