Camelopardalis (Camélopárdalis, genitive the same), from Greek καμηλοπάρδαλις (Greeks thought that it'd the head of a camel and the spots of a leopard),'s a large but faint constellation in the northern sky. Its name's Latin for giraffe. The constellation was first described by Jakob Bartsch in 1624, but was probably created earlier by Petrus Plancius. In older astronomy books, one will sometimes see an alternative… (More on Camelopardalis)