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| Alpha Carinae goes by the name "Canopus" who was the pilot of the fleet of ships owned by King Menelaos. It is the second brightest star in the sky (after Sirius, in Canis Major), with a visual magnitude of -0.62. The yellowish-white supergiant is 313 light years away.
Argo Navis, the ship of the argonauts, was once a vast constellation until it was broken up by de Lacaille in the late eighteenth century into three smaller constellations: Carina (the keel), Puppis (the stern or poop deck), and Vela (the sail). |
