CAMELOPARDUS

CAMELOPARDUS

(Abbreviation: Cam).

A very barren northern constellation. Hevelius introduced it to the sky in 1690, and some historians have maintained that it represents the camel, which carried Rebecca to Isaac! It is interesting to note that several of the apparently faint stars are in fact highly luminous and remote; for instance a Cam, which below the fourth magnitude, is well over 20.000 times luminous then the Sun. There are no stars above the fourth magnitude in Camelopadus.

BRIGHTEST STARS

STAR	R.A.			DEC			MAG.	ABS. MAG.	SPEC	DIST. PC
STAR	H	M	S	o	‘	“	MAG.	ABS. MAG.	SPEC	DIST. PC
2 H	03	29	04.1	+59	56	25	4.21	-7.1	B9	1100
g	03	50	21.5	+71	19	57	4.63	0.9	A3	56
9 a	04	54	03.0	+66	20	34	4.29	-6.3	09.5	860
7	04	57	17.1	+53	45	08	4.47	1.2	A1	45
10 b	05	03	25.1	+60	26	32	4.03	-4.3	GO	460

VARIABLES

STAR	R.A.		DEC		RANGE	PERIOD, D.	SPEC	TYPE
STAR	H	M	o	‘	RANGE	PERIOD, D.	SPEC	TYPE
U	03	37.5	+62	29	7.7---8.9	400	N	SEMI-REGULAR
RV	04	26.5	+57	18	7.1---8.2	182	M	SEMI-REGULAR
T	04	35.2	+66	03	7.3---14.2	374	S	MIRA
X	04	39.2	+75	00	7.4---13.7	143	M	MIRA
VZ	07	20.6	+82	32	4.7---5.2	237	M	SEMI-REGULAR
R	14	21.3	+84	04	7.0---14.4	270	S	MIRA

CLUSTERS AND NEBULÆ

OBJECT	R.A.		DEC		TYPE	NOTES
OBJECT	H	M	o	‘	TYPE	NOTES
I 1501	04	02.6	+60	47	PLANETARY	MAG. 13. FAINT OVAL
I 361	04	14.8	+58	11	OPEN CLUSTER	MAG. 11.2
NGC 2146	06	10.7	+78	23	SPIRAL GALAXY	MAG. 11.3
NGC 2336	07	16.2	+80	20	SPIRAL GALAXY	MAG. 11. TYPE Sb
NGC 2403	07	32.0	+65	43	SPIRAL GALAXY	MAG. 9. LOOSE (Sc)
NGC 2655	14	49.4	+78	25	SPIRAL GALAXY	MAG. 11