Camelopardalis

Camelopardalis (the Giraffe) is a moderately large but very faint circumpolar constellation in the Northern sky. It lies on the opposite side of Polaris from the Little Dipper. In my picture below, it would be rising in the Northeast but part of it would be low there and would require a dark sky and a low horizon. The Giraffe has no named stars and while the rightmost portion of the constellation does lie in the Milky Way, there are no important nebulae or star clusters within its borders. One star shown here is quite blue; it is a super giant star about 5000 light years from Earth and is one of the most distant stars that is easily seen by the naked eye. Also, Camelopardalis is the direction in which Voyager 1 is moving although it will a very long time before it approaches any of these stars. There is also a minor May meteor shower that radiates from the Giraffe. And I apologize for the high flying airplane that intruded into my image.