Canopus Card

Category:Special Items
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==Other Uses==
Used in Special Events: Starlight Celebration
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==How to Obtain==
===Special Event===
:*Starlight Celebration (Christmas 2005 Event)
==Historical Background==
During Starlight Celebration Event (for Christmas 2005), there were 7 Rare Christmas cards that could be obtained. They were: Aldebaran Card, Betelgeuse Card, Canopus Card, Capella Card, Pleiades Card, Rigel Card, Sirius Card. All of these cards are named after some of the brightest stars in the night sky and most of which are visible in the evening hours in December. Most of the stars form the Winter Hexagon asterism, a giant hexagon formed from the brighest stars around at that time of year (Aldebaran, Capella, Pollux, Procyon, Rigel, Sirius). Procyon and Pollux are not included in these cards. Most of the stars form the Summer Hexagon in the Southern Hemisphere, with Canopus replacing Capella.
Canopus (Alpha Carinae) is a star in the Carina constellation (the keel of Argo Navis, an old constellation that was divided into 3/4 constellations in the 1700s). It is the 2nd brightest star in the nighttime sky. Canopus is a star of spectral type F0 (white). Canopus is not visible from the mid-latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, primarily being a Southern Hemisphere star. It is located 313 ly from the Sol system. Canopus is derived either from the name of the helmsman for Menelaus' ship, the ship that went to rescue Helen of Troy after she was kidnapped by Paris during the Trojan War or from the ancient Egyptian port city of Canopus, which was named after the star (which was named Kahi Nub, "golden earth" in Egyptian).