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name: Canis Minor
created_by: skybber
created_date: 2021-06-03 15:42:44.019373
updated_by: skybber
updated_date: 2023-01-06 17:52:03.371165
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A small constellation of the northern sky near the celestial equator, below Gemini and east of Orion, containing only two stars brighter than 5 magnitude: Procyon and Gomeisa. Although located on the edge of the winter Milky Way, Canis Minor offers the observer only a few faint galaxies from deepsky objects, nothing for smaller telescopes. Even binaries are not well represented, but a few are interesting and attention-grabbing. Quasar 4C 05.34, which is one of the most distant object in the sky at 3,000 Mpc, also lies in the constellation.

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