Constellations
Canis Minor (CMi)
The Little Dog
Also known as little dog.
6 looks for Canis Minor
The constellation in a clear night sky over the hills: its lines draw themselves one on every beat, its real stars twinkle with the part of the song their colour answers, the Milky Way glows and a shooting star crosses on the big moments.
About Canis Minor
- What it is
- One of the IAU's constellations: The Little Dog
- IAU abbreviation
- CMi
- Its stars are named
- Canis Minoris (as in "Alpha Canis Minoris")
- Family
- Orion family
- Where
- Along the celestial equator: seen from both hemispheres
- Highest in the sky
- At about 9 pm in March
- Centre
- Right ascension 7h 33m, declination +6° 46′
- The figure
- 2 stars joined by 1 lines
- Brightest star
- Procyon, magnitude 0.38
Star patterns in it: Winter Triangle, Winter Hexagon.
Its stars
Brightest first. A smaller magnitude is a brighter star; the visualizer sizes and colours each one by these.
- Procyon (α CMi)mag 0.38
- Gomeisa (β CMi)mag 2.90
Every star's place, brightness and colour is the Yale Bright Star Catalogue's; the figure is the IAU's, through d3-celestial (credited on the licences page). Constellations template · Every constellation