Camelopardalis

Camelopardalis is a large but faint constellation of the northern sky representing a giraffe.

[1] First attested in English in 1785, the word camelopardalis comes from Latin,[4] and it is the romanization of the Greek "καμηλοπάρδαλις" meaning "giraffe",[5] from "κάμηλος" (kamēlos), "camel"[6] + "πάρδαλις" (pardalis), "spotted",[7] because it has a long neck like a camel and spots like a leopard.

[9] RU Camelopardalis is one of the brighter Type II Cepheids visible in the night sky.

[1] It first appeared in a globe designed by him and produced by Pieter van den Keere.

Johannes Hevelius depicted this constellation in his works which were so influential that it was referred to as Camelopardali Hevelii or abbreviated as Camelopard.

The constellation Camelopardalis as it can be seen by the naked eye.
Camelopardalis as depicted in Urania's Mirror , a set of constellation cards published in London c.1823. Above it are shown the now-abandoned constellations of Tarandus and Custos Messium . [ 16 ]