● Canopus  Canopus is a star in Carina. ### ############### ################### ####################### ######################### ########################### ########################### ############################# ########################### ########################### ######################### ####################### ################### ############### ###  Type Yellow-white bright giant  Constellation Carina  Magnitude -0.7  Spectral type F0II  Distance 313 light years  You need naked eye   Known as  Bayer α Car  Yale HR 2326  what it has been called: skymap.sh/Canopus/about  40.00,-83.00 now · mag -0.7 · never rises from here  Canopus is not visible from 40.00,-83.00: below the horizon.  No window in the next 40 days from this latitude.  It clears the horizon south of about 23°N: Chichen Itza or Tikal.   Canopus never rises from 40.00,-83.00. It stays below the horizon all year at this latitude.   You will find it in Carina.   It is a yellow-white bright giant, 313 light years away, so the light reaching you left it in 1714.   Your sky here is about Bortle 7, bright, and this is still bright enough to see with the naked eye.  Follow @skymapsh for skymap.sh updates