Canis Minor

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Canis Minor Constellation Starchart
Canis Minor Constellation Starchart

Yet another in the pantheon of non-constellations, Canis Minor consists of two stars -- two friggin stars -- one of which is the eighth-brightest star in Earth's sky, Procyon. The other is called Gomeisa, a hot, young, mass-losing Variable Star of the same class as Gamma Cassiopeiae.

Two stars is not a constellation, people, two stars is a line segment.

Anyway, Canis Minor is really only famous as the Mini-Me of Canis Major, which could be mistaken for the thing it's supposed to represent given an active enough imagination.

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