To find Canis Minor, the little dog and second of Orion’s hunting dogs in many legends, you’ll instead draw a line left from Orion’s two shoulder stars, where you’ll find another bright ...

This week’s naked-eye object is the tiny constellation Canis Minor the Small Dog. And, indeed, it is small — this constellation’s size ranks 71st out of the 88 star patterns that cover the sky.

Of the 88 star patterns, three feature canines. The best known are Canis Major and Canis Minor, Latin for the greater and lesser dogs, located within a stone's throw of Orion. Canes Venatici the ...

Procyon is a binary star system in Canis Minor (the lesser dog), which is a constellation in the Northern Hemisphere. It is among the 10 brightest stars from Earth's sky. The system is made up of ...

IN NOVEMBER – at least in the part of the northern hemisphere I call home – the nights begin to get darker, the leaves turn all sorts of shades of orange and my dogs’ paws seem to get ...

Canis Minor the Little Dog is admittedly much smaller. Generally drawn from just two stars, one of those is still quite bright: magnitude 0.4 Procyon, which stands nearly 26° above Sirius in the ...

To find Canis Minor, the little dog and second of Orion’s hunting dogs in many legends, you’ll instead draw a line left from Orion’s two shoulder stars, where you’ll find another bright ...