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Polynesian peoples often did not recognize Canis Minor as a constellation, but they saw Procyon as significant and often named it; in the Tuamotu Archipelago it was known as Hiro, meaning "twist as a thread of coconut fiber", and Kopu-nui-o-Hiro ("great paunch of Hiro"), which was either a name for the modern figure of Canis Minor or an ...
α Canis Minoris (Latinized to Alpha Canis Minoris) is the star's Bayer designation. The name Procyon comes from the Ancient Greek Προκύων (Prokyon), meaning "before the dog", since it precedes the "Dog Star" Sirius as it travels across the sky due to Earth's rotation.
PKS 0736+017 is a blazar [1] located in the constellation of Canis Minor.This object is also a highly polarized [2] compact radio quasar. [3] Its source having a radio spectrum, appears to be flat, making it a flat spectrum radio quasar.
HD 66141 is a single [8] star in the equatorial constellation of Canis Minor.It has the Bayer designation G Canis Minoris, [6] the Gould designation 50 G. Canis Minoris, [7] and has the HR 3145 identifier from the Bright Star Catalogue. [6]
Gamma Canis Minoris (γ Canis Minoris) is a binary star system in the equatorial constellation Canis Minor. Its orange colour is obvious when seen through binoculars. [ 7 ] The system is visible to the naked eye with a combined apparent visual magnitude of +4.33. [ 2 ]
The primary component, η Canis Minoris A, is a yellow-white F-type giant with an apparent magnitude of +5.24. Its companion, η Canis Minoris B , is an eleventh-magnitude star located 4 arcseconds from the primary, though is actually around 440 AU from the main star and takes around 5,000 years to orbit it.
Canis Minor}} is a {}-based template to be used at the bottom of articles about astronomical objects beyond the Solar System, located in the constellation of Canis Minor. The template is divided into categories of stars , star clusters , nebulae , exoplanets , galaxies , galaxy clusters , and a miscellaneous "other" category.
BG Canis Minoris is a binary star system in the equatorial constellation of Canis Minor, abbreviated BG CMi. With an apparent visual magnitude that fluctuates around 14.5, [3] it is much too faint to be visible to the naked eye. Parallax measurements provide a distance estimate of approximately 2,910 light years from the Sun. [2]