Camelopardalis

The Giraffe - "camel-leopard"

the stars are very faint

Camelopardalis is a modern constellation created to fill a vast region 
of faint stars surrounded by the brighter and more famous constellations 
of Ursa Major, Auriga, Perseus, Cassiopeia, and others.  

The constellation was probably invented by Petrus Plancius (1552-1622), 
a Dutchman who made his name in cartography while working for the Dutch 
East India Company. His world maps of 1592 and 1594 became very popular, 
while his contribution to the heavenly maps was awarded in 1624 when 
Camelopardalis was included in Jakob Bartsch's book on the constellations.  
(Some historians believe Bartsch had invented the constellation.)  

The "camel-leopard" was so named because the Greeks thought the animal - 
a giraffe - had the head of a camel and the spots of a leopard.