Canopus (disambiguation)

Canopus may refer to:

Canopus (star) (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.
Canopus Towers - proposed skyscrapers in Salford, England.

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