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Canis Minor is a small constellation in the northern celestial hemisphere.In the second century, it was included as an asterism, or pattern, of two stars in Ptolemy's 48 constellations, and it is counted among the 88 modern constellations.
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ɒ n /) [17] is the brightest star in the constellation of Canis Minor and usually the eighth-brightest star in the night sky, with an apparent visual magnitude of 0.34. [3] It has the Bayer designation α Canis Minoris, which is Latinized to Alpha Canis Minoris, and abbreviated α CMi or Alpha CMi, respectively.
Beta Canis Minoris (β Canis Minoris, abbreviated Beta CMi, β CMi), also named Gomeisa / ɡ ɒ ˈ m aɪ z ə /, [12] [13] is a star in the constellation of Canis Minor. In the night sky it is notable for its proximity to the prominent star Procyon .
6 Canis Minoris is a star in the equatorial constellation of Canis Minor, located around 570 light years away from the Sun. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of +4.55. [2] This object is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −16.3 km/s. [4]
ZZ Canis Minoris is a symbiotic binary [7] in the constellation Canis Minor. It is 4,000 light-years distant and can't be seen to the naked eye with a maximum apparent magnitude of +9.7. This binary system is made up of a red giant primary and a white dwarf secondary that is accreting material from the red giant.
YZ Canis Minoris is a red-hued star in the equatorial constellation of Canis Minor. With an apparent visual magnitude of 11.15, [ 3 ] it is much too faint to be viewed with the naked eye . The distance to YZ CMi can be estimated from its annual parallax shift of 167 mas , yielding a value of 19.5 light years .
S Canis Minoris is a variable star in the equatorial constellation Canis Minor.It has a peak apparent visual magnitude of 6.5, so not normally visible to the naked eye.The star is located at a distance of approximately 1,340 light-years from the Sun based on stellar parallax, and is drifting further away with a radial velocity of about +68 km/s.