File:Field Book of the Stars-127-Canis Major.svg

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CANIS MAJOR (kā'-nis mā-jor)—THE GREATER DOG (Face South.)

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English: A map of the constellation Canis Major, suitable to use for simple star-gazing (eyes and binoculars). Image from the book A Field Book of the Stars:Canis Major
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Author Goran tek-en, following request by and knowledge from RaboKarbakian
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current19:10, 2 February 2021Thumbnail for version as of 19:10, 2 February 2021771 × 831 (45 KB)Goran tek-en (talk | contribs){{Information |description ={{en|1=The three stars in Orion's girdle point southeast to Sirius, the dog star, in Canis Major, the most brilliant star in the heavens. It was connected in the minds of the Egyptians with the rising of the Nile, and is receding from the earth at the rate of twenty miles a second. Seventeen years are required for its light to reach us. There is a tiny star near Sirius. The star (ν) is a triple. The cluster (41 M.) can be seen with an opera-glass, just below i...

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