CAMELOPARDALIS
Though it sprawls across most of the picture, the modern constellation Camelopardalis, the Giraffe, is represented by only a few modest stars near its western end. The constellation is seen as rising with north up and to the left.
Camelopardalis
Transit Date of principal star:
4 December
If one were asked to name all the four-legged creatures found in the sky, the Ram and the Bull would come readily to mind, and the Bear and Dog (two of each actually: major and minor).
Camelopardalis
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Camelopardalis, or the Giraffe, is a large yet faint constellation in the northern hemisphere.
Camelopardalis
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Camelopardalis
Abbreviation: Cam
Genitive: Camelopardalis
Translation: The Giraffe
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Camelopardalis, the giraffe:
Created in 1614 by the German astronomer Jakob Bartsch. It was created to fill a region of the sky devoid of constellations. It is surrounded by the Ursa Major, Auriga, Perseus, Ursa Minor, and others.
β Camelopardalis is the brightest star, at apparent magnitude 4.03. This star is a double star, with components of magnitudes 4.0 and 7.4.
Camelopardalis
Abbreviation: Cam English name: Giraffe Coordinates see Stellar data ...
Below: Camelopardalis depicted on Plate 2 of Urania's Mirror, a set of constellation cards published in England in c.1825. Also shown are Tarandus, the reindeer by another name, and Custos Messium. (Image © Ian Ridpath.)
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Constellations adjoining Camelopardalis and Auriga:
Cassiopeia, Cepheus, Draco, Gemini, Lynx, Perseus, Taurus, Ursa Major, Ursa Minor.
Camelopardalis (Giraffe)
No Saint given
Origin of the constellation: 1661, Bartsch ...
Z Camelopardalis Stars
A class of dwarf novae (q.v.) with standstills in their light curves. Z Cam itself is a semidetached binary (period 7h21m) consisting of a dG1 star and a hot white dwarf or a hot blue subdwarf which is probably degenerate.
Finding Camelopardalis: Camelopardalis can be found between Perseus, Auriga and Lynx, the hind quarters in the Milky Way. With the naked eye locate Capella (alpha Aurigae) .
Camelopardalis
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Camelopardalis
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name type constellation notes
GR 8 (DDO 155) ...
Z Camelopardalis stars -- these objects exhibit long "standstills", where the luminosity remains at a roughly constant, elevated level for years at a time.
The results of five intensive radio-astronomical surveys (1C, 2C, 3C, 4C and 5C) under the direction of Sir Martin Ryle and Anthony Hewish, during the l950s, 1960s and 1970s, at Cambridge. [A84]
Z Camelopardalis Stars ...
Camelopardalis (constellation)
Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope
canals, Mars
Cancer (constellation)
55 Cancri (Rho1 Cancri)
Canes Venatici (constellation)
Canes Venatici Cloud
Canes Venatici I Group
Canes Venatici II Group ...
Camelopardalis, the giraffe
Canes Venatici, the hunting dogs
Canis Major, the big dog
Canis Minor, the little dog
Cassiopeia, the queen
Cepheus, the king
Cetus, the whale
Columba, the dove
Coma Berenices, Berenice's hair ...
Example: S Camelopardalis
C-N: Formerly a class on its own representing the carbon star equivalent of late K to M stars. Example: R Leporis
C-J: A subtype of cool C stars with a high content of 13C. Example: Y Canum Venaticorum ...
Adjoining Ursa Minor and Camelopardalis. Cepheus is further bordered by his queen, the vain Cassiopeia, and Draco, the dragon constellation. Cygnus and Lacerta are immediately underneath Cepheus.
Kappa, omicron and pi Cephei are triple star systems.
A WISE image of the constellation Camelopardalis. Although visible light is blocked by dust clouds, the infrared WISE image has allowed the discovery of a cluster of new stars within it (AFGL 490). Image: NASA.
Arcturus (Alpha Boötis or Hokule'a)
Izar (Epsilon Boötis)
Caelum (Caeli) Camelopardalis (Camelopardalis) Cancer (Cancri)
NGC 2812
Canes Venatici (Canum Venaticorum) ...
Three subtypes are identified; U Geminorum , Z Camelopardalis and SU Ursae Majoris stars. Note as with other types of variables, the class or type name is normally based on the first such type of that class discovered.
Voyager 1 will float by within 1.6 light years (9.3 trillion miles) of a star known as AC+79 3888 in the constellation Camelopardalis.
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the Milky Way, the deserted area now considered as the constellations Camelopardalis and Lynx, and the constellations Gemini, Auriga, and Canis Major), this may be the origin of the myth of the cattle of Geryon, ...
Jakob Bartsch added a further 3 in 1624: Camelopardalis (the Giraffe), Columba (the Dove, also attributed to Bayer) and Monoceros (the Unicorn); ...
ability, you should observe them when they are as close to the Zenith as possible. Notice how the majority of the faintest objects I have seen are in constellations that always attain a high altitude (Coma Bernices, Draco, Camelopardalis, Ursa Major).
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