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Canopus is now included in the IAU Catalog of Star Names. [19] Canopus traditionally marked the steering oar of the ship Argo Navis. [20] [12] German celestial cartographer Johann Bayer gave it—as the brightest star in the constellation—the designation of α Argus (Latinised to Alpha Argus) in 1603.
The novel culminates with the latter, male, civilisation allying with a tribal female realm again following directives from Canopus. The Sirian Experiments (1980) – Focuses, like Shikasta, on the history of Earth, but from the perspective of visitors from Sirius rather than Canopus. The Sirians are depicted as a highly managed society, with ...
Argo Navis is known from Greek texts, which derived it from Egypt around 1000 BC. [4] Plutarch attributed it to the Egyptian "Boat of Osiris ." [ 4 ] Some academics theorized a Sumerian origin related to the Epic of Gilgamesh , a hypothesis rejected for lack of evidence that Mesopotamian cultures considered these stars, or any portion of them ...
The constellations with no Alpha-designated star include Vela and Puppis—both formerly part of Argo Navis, whose Greek-letter stars were split among three constellations. Canopus, the former α Argus, is now α Carinae in the modern constellation Carina.
Carina (/ k ə ˈ r aɪ n ə, k ə ˈ r iː n ə / kə-RY-nə, - REE-) is a constellation in the southern sky.Its name is Latin for the keel of a ship, and it was the southern foundation of the larger constellation of Argo Navis (the ship Argo) until it was divided into three pieces, the other two being Puppis (the poop deck), and Vela (the sails of the ship).
1763, Lacaille, split from Argo Navis: keel: Canopus-0.74 Cassiopeia / ˌ k æ s i oʊ ˈ p iː ə / [7] [8] Cas: Cass: Cassiopeiae / ˌ k æ s i oʊ ˈ p iː iː / [8] ancient : Cassiopeia (mythological character) Schedar: 2.24 Centaurus / s ɛ n ˈ t ɔːr ə s / [7] Cen: Cent: Centauri: ancient : centaur: Alpha Centauri-0.27 Cepheus / ˈ s ...
All other first-magnitude stars are the only such stars in their asterisms or constellations, with Canopus in the Argo Navis asterism south of Sirius, visually east of the Carina Nebula and near the Large Magellanic Cloud (both being first-magnitude deep-sky objects), Achernar in the Eridanus constellation east of Canopus, Fomalhaut in the ...
η Carinae (Eta Carinae, abbreviated to η Car), formerly known as η Argus, is a stellar system containing at least two stars with a combined luminosity greater than five million times that of the Sun, located around 7,500 light-years (2,300 parsecs) distant in the constellation Carina.