Camelopardalis Cam
Camelopardalis is one of the 88 constellations, covering 757 square degrees of the sky (18th largest). It is highest at midnight in December and best in the evening sky in January and February.
2 of its best-known objects have a page of their own here.
Facts
| Abbreviation | Cam |
|---|---|
| Size | 757 square degrees (18th largest of the 88; the full Moon covers about 0.2) |
| Middle (J2000) | 5h 41m, +71° |
| Highest at midnight | December (in the evening, around 8–10 pm: January and February) |
| How high | From India (about 20° N) its middle climbs to about 39° above the horizon; from 50° N, to about 69°. |
| Pages here | 2 objects |
Galaxies
1Planetary systems
1Brightest NGC and IC objects
OpenNGC| Object | Type | Magnitude | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGC 1502 (on the map) | Open star cluster | 6.9 | 10.2′ |
| NGC 2403 (on the map) | Galaxy | 8.4 | 20′ |
| IC 342 (on the map) | Galaxy | 9.7 | 19.8′ |
| IC 356 (on the map) | Galaxy | 10.2 | 4′ |
| NGC 2655 (on the map) | Galaxy | 10.4 | 3.9′ |
| IC 3568 (on the map) | Planetary nebula | 10.6 | 0.4′ |
| NGC 2336 (on the map) | Galaxy | 10.7 | 5′ |
| NGC 2146 (on the map) | Galaxy | 10.7 | 5.3′ |
| NGC 1569 (on the map) | Galaxy | 11.1 | 3.9′ |
| NGC 2366 (on the map) | Galaxy | 11.2 | 4.4′ |
| NGC 2715 (on the map) | Galaxy | 11.5 | 4.2′ |
| NGC 1501 (on the map) | Planetary nebula | 11.5 | 0.9′ |
Smaller magnitudes are brighter; the faintest stars the eye sees are about 6. The full Moon is about 31′ across.
Data: IAU constellation boundaries (Roman 1987) · OpenNGC (Mattia Verga, CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data sources & credits