The Sky Tonight— images from historic star atlases, keyed to the modern constellationsProcyon, the brightest star of Canis Minor, serves as the vertex of the Winter Hexagon lying between Gemini and Sirius.
Canis Minor is included in the ancient star catalog of Ptolemy, but was not present in the catalogs of Eudoxos of Knidos or Aratos of Soli.
One of Orion’s two faithful dogs, following him in the sky.
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Bayer, Uranometria (1661): Canis Minor | 1661 |
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Bayer, Uranometria (1661): Canis Minor, detail | 1661 |
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Bode (1801), plate 12 | 1801 |
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Bode (1801), Plate 12: Canis Minor | 1801 |
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Bode (1801), plate 2: Libra Planisphere Uranographia Tab II. Stellatum Hemisphaeri um Librae. Bode included two planisphere plates. They are not southern and northern hemispheres; each one has Polaris at the top and the south pole at the bottom. Each… |
1801 |
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Hyginus (1485) figure: Canis Minor | 1485 |
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Urania's Mirror (1825) card: Monoceros more Urania's Mirror (1825) card: Monoceros, Canis Minor, Printing Press |
1825 |
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Urania's Mirror (1825) figure: Canis Minor more | 1825 |
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