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Canis Minor (abbr. CMi, gen. Canis Minoris)



The Little Dog, the lesser of Orion's hunting dogs; a small northern constellation to the east of Gemini. Its brightest star, Procyon, forms the northeast apex of the Winter Triangle. See below for details of the constellation's brightest stars.


Canis Minor constellation
Canis Minor. © 2003 Torsten Bronger.
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Stars brighter than magnitude 4.0
Star Visual
mag.
Abs.
mag.
Spectral
type
Distance
(lt-yr)
R.A. (h m s) Dec. ( ° ' '' )
Alpha (Procyon) 0.40 2.68 F5IV-V 11.4 07 39 18 +05 13 30
Beta (Gomeisa) 2.89 -0.70 B8Ve 170 07 27 09 +08 17 21


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   • NOTABLE STARS
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