Camelopardalis

Camelopardalis a Northern Hemisphere constellation otherwise known as the Giraffe. It was introduced around 1612 by Petrus Plancius (Wikipedia).Camelopardalis remains one of the 88 modern constellations defined by the International Astronomical Union (Wikipedia).

Camelopardalis (abbrev. = Cam; genitive = Camelopardalis) covers 757 square degrees or 1.84% of the celestial sphere making it the 18th largest constellation. It contains 152 stars brighter than apparent magnitude 6.5, the brightest star being Beta Camelopardalis.

For more information see the entries for Camelopardalis at Wikipedia and U. Wisconsin. For a chart of Camelopardalis, see Cam (IAU).


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