Canis+Major

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__(Great Dog)__ **//Latin name- Canis Majoris//****//Abbreviation- CMa//**  ====== ** - contains 178  stars!!!!!!!!!!!!  **  ** -dominated by Sirius and alpha Canis Major ** ** // Apparent magnitude -1.4 // ** //**-White star**  // ** <span style="color: #f726b3; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 223.949%; text-align: center;">__- only 8.7 light years from the Earth__ ** // <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; text-align: center;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">// <span style="color: #25edef; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 123.172%; text-align: center;">** - Canis Majoris has a small companion that can only be seen from a telescope. Canis Major is a constellation included in the 22nd century astronomer Ptolemeys 48 constellations but still in the modern 88 ones.
 * Temperature of star- 7500K to 11000k. //

<span style="color: #682277; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 143%; text-align: center;">* <span style="color: #682277; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 143%; text-align: center;">__Bordering Constellations__ <span style="color: #682277; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 143%; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #682277; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">-Monoceros -Lepus -Columba -Puppis ** // <span style="color: #25edef; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 164.229%; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #dc25ef; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 164.229%; text-align: center;">**<span style="color: #00ffac; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 121%; text-align: center;">//- Canis Major appears over the horizon about half an hour after the Constellation Orion has risen.// <span style="color: #dc00ff; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 133.1%; text-align: center;"> **//*Canis Major is very easy to be seen between the months of November and March.//

<span style="color: #0ef69c; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 124.416%; text-align: center;">//**:-) The main stars within this constellation are - Sirius (CMa), - Murzim (Beta CMa), Muliphen (Gamma CMa), Wezen (Delta CMa), ADARA (Epsilon CMa), Furud (Zeta CMa) and Aludra (CMa).**// <span style="color: #e900ff; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 149.299%; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #630abd; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 179.159%; text-align: center;">**__Mythology__:** <span style="color: #630abd; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 149.299%; text-align: center;">

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<span style="color: #630abd; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">**//-It is said by the Greek that Canis major, along with Canis Minor, are hunting dogs. Also the Greek mythology says that Orion's two hunting dogs may be chasing, Lepus, the rabbit which is in front of him.//** <span style="color: #e900ff; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 144%; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #ff009e; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 158.4%; text-align: center;">The Arabic title for the constellation was //Al Kalb al Jabbar,// or "the Dog of the Giant." <span style="color: #ff009e; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 190.08%; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #002dff; display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 132%; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #002dff; display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 145.2%; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #002dff; display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 132%; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #002dff; display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 121%; text-align: center;">// __**Positioning in the Sky:**__ *Right Ascension- 7 hours * Declination -20 degrees *Visible between latitudes 60 and -90 degrees * Best seen in February (at 9:00 PM) // ======

REFRENCES
[|//http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Canis-Major//] [|//http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/the_universe/images/starmaps/map_canis_major_jpg_image.html//] <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">[|//http://www.coldwater.k12.mi.us/lms/planetarium/myth/canismajor.html//][|//http://www.perezmedia.net/beltofvenus/archives/images/2005/img2005013002_CanisMajor.jpg//] [|//http://www.astrographia.com/images/2.jpg//] [|//http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/constellations/Canis_Major.html//] [|//http://www.dibonsmith.com/cma_con.htm//] <span style="color: #9a10ad; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">http://www.sky-watch.com/astronomy-guide/the-great-dog.html

// __This pages was formed by Vanessa Kasper__ **

<span style="color: #661584; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">This project for Earth Science 9 helped me with my technology skills and my constellation knowledge. I enjoyed this project a lot and it was a very fun activity. I learned a lot from this and it expanded my knowledge on consteallations. I hope we can do this again soon!!!!!!!! //