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Canopus (or Alpha Carinae) is the brightest star in the southern constellation of Carina.
Canopus may also refer to:
- Canopus (insect), Neotropical bug genus
- Canopus (mythology), in Homeric myth, the pilot of King Menelaus's ship
- Canopus (nuclear test) was the name given to the first test of the French hydrogen bomb, in 1968, with a yield of 2.8 megatons
- Canopus (Thrace), a town of ancient Thrace, a suburb of Byzantium
- Canopus, Egypt, an ancient Egyptian city near modern-day Abu Qir, in the Nile Delta
- Canopus 2, an Argentine sounding rocket
- Canopus Corporation, a manufacturer of video editing cards and video editing software
- Canopus G-ADHL, a Short Empire flying boat
- Canopus in Argos, a series of space fiction by Doris Lessing
- Canopic jar, ancient Egyptian vessel for storing organs removed by mummification procedure
- Canopus Lake, a lake in Clarence Fahnestock State Park in New York State, USA
- HMS Canopus, two ships of the Royal Navy
- USS Canopus, three ships of the United States Navy
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Look up
Canopus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Canopus (or Alpha Carinae) is the brightest star in the southern constellation of Carina.
Canopus may also refer to:
- Canopus (insect), Neotropical bug genus
- Canopus (mythology), in Homeric myth, the pilot of King Menelaus's ship
- Canopus (nuclear test) was the name given to the first test of the French hydrogen bomb, in 1968, with a yield of 2.8 megatons
- Canopus (Thrace), a town of ancient Thrace, a suburb of Byzantium
- Canopus, Egypt, an ancient Egyptian city near modern-day Abu Qir, in the Nile Delta
- Canopus 2, an Argentine sounding rocket
- Canopus Corporation, a manufacturer of video editing cards and video editing software
- Canopus G-ADHL, a Short Empire flying boat
- Canopus in Argos, a series of space fiction by Doris Lessing
- Canopic jar, ancient Egyptian vessel for storing organs removed by mummification procedure
- Canopus Lake, a lake in Clarence Fahnestock State Park in New York State, USA
- HMS Canopus, two ships of the Royal Navy
- USS Canopus, three ships of the United States Navy
This
disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Canopus.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.