Canopus (disambiguation)

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Canopus may refer to:

  • Canopus (or Alpha Carinae), the brightest star in the southern constellation of Carina
  • Canopus, Egypt, an ancient Egyptian city in the Nile Delta
  • Canopus (mythology), in Homeric myth, the pilot of King Menelaus's ship
  • Canopus (rocket), an Argentine sounding rocket
  • Canopus Corporation, a manufacturer of video editing cards and video editing software
  • HMS Canopus, two ships of the Royal Navy
  • USS Canopus, a ship of the United States Navy
  • Canopus (nuclear test) was the name given to the first test of the French hydrogen bomb, in 1968, with a yield of 2.8 megatons
  • Canopus Lake, a lake in Clarence Fahnestock State Park in the USA
  • Canopus in Argos, a series of space fiction by Doris Lessing
  • Canopic jar, ancient Egyptian vessel for storing organs removed by mummification procedure
  • Canopus, a Japanese drum company.

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