Canopus
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Canopus (α Car / α Carinae / Alpha Carinae) is the brightest star in the southern constellation of Carina, and the second brightest star in the sky, with a visual magnitude of −0.62, second only to Sirius.
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Canopus
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in astronomy, 2d brightest star in the sky, located in the constellation Carina, which is part of the ancient constellation Argo Navis; Bayer designation &agr; Carinae; 1992 position R.A. 6h23.8m, Dec.
CANOPUS (Alpha Carinae). As northerners drive south on winter vacations, if they are familiar with the sky they encounter something of a surprise.
Canopus is the 2nd brightest star in the sky. Take a look at the list of the Brightest Stars ...
Canopus is the second brightest star in the nighttime sky. Sirius at Visual Magnitude -1.44 is the only star exceeding Canopus in brightness.
Canopus
Canopus, the second-brightest star in the sky, as viewed from the International Space Station.
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Canopus and the Southern Cross
Canopus was known to some tribes as the 'ants' egg star' because of its prominence during the season when the eggs were abundant.
Canopus ( Car)
(a) The brightest star in the constellation Carina and the second brightest star in the night sky. It is spectral type F and shines yellow-white.
so Canopus is ≈ 4.207 × 105 × brighter in the sky than Wolf 359.
Canopus is not mentioned by Aratus, because the star was below the horizon from Greece in his day; the name first appears with Eratosthenes who worked farther south, at Alexandria in northern Egypt, and hence would have seen it.
Canopus -- the star -- was known in antiquity as the Star of Osiris and worshipped in many ancient cultures. This was the star that Posidonius used in Alexandria, circa 260 BC, as he became the first person to plot out a degree of the Earth's surface.
CANOPUS (Alpha Car)
Miaplacidus (Beta Car)
Avior (Epsilon Car)
Turais (Iota Car)
Carina was originally part of the large constellation Argo Navis.
Canopus (Alpha Carinae)
Carinae Delta (there is no "Delta" star in the modern Carina constellations)
Cassiopeia (Cassiopeiae) Centaurus (Centauri) ...
see Canopus. [H76]
Carinae
A peculiar nova-like variable about 2 kpc distant. For 50 years in the middle of the nineteenth century it was the second brightest star in the southern sky, reaching magnitude - 1 in 1843.
Procyon, Canopus (F0)
G
Singly ionized and neutral metal lines; H lines faint
K = 5,000-6,000; M = 0.85-1.1; R = 0.85-1.1; L = 0.66-1.5; T = 7-15 Ga ...
Examples: Canopus, Procyon
Class G
Class G stars are probably the best known, if only for the reason that our Sun is of this class. Most notable are the H and K lines of Ca II, which are most prominent at G2.
Canopus (Alpha Carinae)
Cape Photographic Dürchmusterung (CPD)
Cape York meteorite
Capella (Alpha Aurigae)
Caph (Beta Cassiopeiae)
Capricornus (constellation)
Capricornus Dwarf (Palomar 12)
capture area
captured rotation
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Boo Bootes Bear Driver Arcturus Cae Caelum Graving Tool Cam Camelopardalis Giraffe Cnc Cancer Crab CVn Canes Venatici Hunting Dogs CMa Canis Maior Larger Dog Sirius CMi Canis Minor Smaller Dog Prokyon Cap Capricornus Sea Goat Car Carina Keel Canopus ...
Immediately following this maneuver the star-tracker locked onto a bright flake of paint which had come off the spacecraft and lost lock on the guide star Canopus.
46, Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky, almost twice the brightness of the second brightest star, Canopus.[57] However, it is not as bright as the Moon, Venus, or Jupiter. Mercury and Mars are also brighter than Sirius at times.
It was stabilized in a three-axis orientation by using the sun and the star Canopus as primary angular references. A three-axis inertial system provided stabilization during maneuvers and when the sun and Canopus were occulted by the Moon.
This photograph above shows a large part of the southern sky, from Crux to Orion, and includes the two brightest stars in the sky, Sirius and Canopus.
First, there is the second brightest star in the sky, [1668] alpha Carinae or Canopus. Lying approximately 700 light-years from Earth, Canopus has a visual magnitude of -0.
Some writers reported that the Greek Posidonius used the greatest height of the bright star Canopus above the horizon, as seen from Egypt and from the island of Rhodes further north (near the southwestern tip of Turkey).
05, after Sirius, Canopus and Alpha Centauri. It is the second brightest star visible from northern latitudes and the brightest star in the northern celestial hemisphere. The star is in the Local Interstellar Cloud.
Sais or Sa el-Hagar was an ancient Egyptian town in the Western Nile Delta on the Canopus, Egypt branch of the Nile.
The Sotho-Tswana peoples of southern Africa ran a contest: The first person to see the star Canopus in the predawn sky won a cow. The appearance of Canopus, in late May, means the dry season is about to start in southern Africa.
46, it is nearly twice as bright as Canopus, the second brightest star. Apparent magnitude is a measure of a star's brightness as seen from Earth. The lower the number, the brighter the star.
Named stars: Alpha Car (Canopus), Beta Car (Miaplacidus), Epsilon Car (Avior), Iota Car (Tureis)
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Cassiopeia ...
Brightness is particularly deceptive; thus Canopus, the second brightest star in the heavens, has probably a parallax of less than 0.01 ", and so also has Rigel.
It lies in the southwest corner (6:20:6.1-48:44:27.9, ICRS 2000.0) of Constellation Puppis, the Stern of the legendary ship Argo Navis. The star can be found: northwest of Canopus (Alpha Carinae); northeast of Beta Pictoris; west of Tau Puppis; ...
Dorado represents not the goldfish kept as pets, but a type of fish that can be found in the seas of the Southern Hemisphere. The constellation lies west of the bright star Canopus in Carina, so is invisible to most of the United States.
Its roll reference comes from a star tracker trained continuously on a single bright star (Canopus) at right angles to sunpoint.
 See also: Star, Light, Constellation, Sun, Second
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