Canopus (disambiguation)
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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.