chamaeleon

1. (astronomy) A small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky, imagined to resemble a chameleon, which lies south of the constellations Carina and Musca.Examples: "1994, Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica, Volumes 28-30, Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, page 50, The X-ray luminosity function has been determined so far only for the far only for the central parts of the Chamaeleon SFR by Fiegelson et al. (1993)."; "2001, A. Mizuno, T. Hayakawa, T. Onishi, Y. Fukui, Dense Core Survey toward the Chamaeleon Dark Cloud Complex with the NANTEN Radio Telescope, Alwyn Wootten (editor), Science with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA): Proceedings of a Conference, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, page 146."; "2005, Memorie Della Società Astronomica Italiana, Volume 76, Issues 1-2, Società Astronomica Italiana, page 263, We note, however, that the surveyed area in Chamaeleon II was relatively small in comparison with the other two regions, covering only part of a cloud core to the north-west."