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 977→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
1 Camelopardalis 977 2 Camelopardalis 977 3 Camelopardalis 977 4 Camelopardalis 977 5 Camelopardalis 977 6 Camelopardalis 977 7 Camelopardalis 977 8 Camelopardalis 977 9 Camelopardalis 977 10 Camelopardalis 977 11 Camelopardalis 977 12 Camelopardalis 977 13 Camelopardalis 977 14 Camelopardalis 977 15 Camelopardalis 977 16 Camelopardalis 977 17 Camelopardalis 977 18 Camelopardalis 977 19 Camelopardalis 977 20 Camelopardalis 977 21 Camelopardalis 977 22 Camelopardalis 977 23 Camelopardalis 977 24 Camelopardalis 977 25 Camelopardalis 977 26 Camelopardalis 977 27 Camelopardalis 977 28 Camelopardalis 977 1 Chamaeleon 977 28 December 3448 29 December 3448 30 December 3448 31 December 3448 1 January 3449 2 January 3449 3 January 3449 4 January 3449 5 January 3449 6 January 3449 7 January 3449 8 January 3449 9 January 3449 10 January 3449 11 January 3449 12 January 3449 13 January 3449 14 January 3449 15 January 3449 16 January 3449 17 January 3449 18 January 3449 19 January 3449 20 January 3449 21 January 3449 22 January 3449 23 January 3449 24 January 3449 25 January 3449 26 January 3449
MS 505771 MS 505772 MS 505773 MS 505774 MS 505775 MS 505776 MS 505777 MS 505778 MS 505779 MS 505780 MS 505781 MS 505782 MS 505783 MS 505784 MS 505785 MS 505786 MS 505787 MS 505788 MS 505789 MS 505790 MS 505791 MS 505792 MS 505793 MS 505794 MS 505795 MS 505796 MS 505797 MS 505798 MS 505799 MD 519810 MD 519811 MD 519812 MD 519813 MD 519814 MD 519815 MD 519816 MD 519817 MD 519818 MD 519819 MD 519820 MD 519821 MD 519822 MD 519823 MD 519824 MD 519825 MD 519826 MD 519827 MD 519828 MD 519829 MD 519830 MD 519831 MD 519832 MD 519833 MD 519834 MD 519835 MD 519836 MD 519837 MD 519838 MD 519839