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 CANIS MINOR (ka'-nis mi'-nor)—THE LESSER DOG. (Face West.)

—Procyon, the little dog star, lies about 23 degrees south of Pollux, in ../Gemini/, A line drawn from Nath, in ../Auriga/, to Alhena in Gemini, and prolonged about 18 degrees, reaches Procyon.

Procyon is equidistant from Betelgeuze in ../Orion/, and Sirius in ../Canis Major/, and forms with them an equilateral triangle. It forms a large right-angled triangle with Pollux and Betelgeuze.

The light from Procyon is golden yellow. Four degrees north-west of it is the third-magnitude star Gomeisa. Binoculars show two small stars forming a right-angled triangle with it.

Procyon was distinctly mentioned by Ptolemy. 20