* Canopus, Egypt, an ancient Egyptian city in the Nile Delta

The Decree of Canopus, which was issued by the pharaoh Ptolemy III, Euergetes of Ancient Egypt in 239 BC, decreed a solar leap day system ; an Egyptian leap year was not adopted until 25 BC, when the Roman Emperor Augustus successfully instituted a reformed Alexandrian calendar.

Ptolemy set up a public inscription at Canopus, Egypt, in 147 or 148.

Soon after taking orders, in 1760, he was nominated coadjutor to his uncle, Louis Constantin de Rohan-Rochefort, who then held the bishopric, and he was also appointed titular bishop of Canopus, Egypt.

Other bright stars such as Canopus, visible in Egypt, disappear from the sky.

* A second from the Egyptian Coptic Kahi Nub (" Golden Earth "), which refers how Canopus would have appeared near the horizon in ancient Egypt, reddened by atmospheric extinction from that position.

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* October 13 – The HMS Canopus ( 1898 ), a pre-Dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy, is launched at Portsmouth, England ( will be deployed widely in World War I ).

* July 3 – Short Empire prototype RMA Canopus

Canopus stood in the seventh nome ( Menelaites, later Canopites after it ), on the western bank at the mouth of the westernmost branch of the River Nile – known as the Canopic or Heracleotic branch or-mouth.

Positional information was provided by four Sun sensors, and a sensor for either the Earth, Mars, or the star Canopus, depending on the time in its spaceflight.

It took more than a day of " star-hopping " to find Canopus, as the sensor locked on to other stars instead: a stray light pattern from the near Earth, Alderamin, Regulus, Naos, and Gamma Velorum were acquired before Canopus.

During the early part of the mission, roll error signal transients occurred frequently, making the spacecraft lose its lock on Canopus.

In addition to the inscriptions, there would probably have been a scene depicting the king being presented to the gods, topped with a winged disk, as on the Canopus Stele.

It utilized 3 gyros, 2 sets of 6 nitrogen jets, which were mounted on the ends of the solar panels, a Canopus tracker, and two primary and four secondary sun sensors.

It was the first spacecraft designed to perform mid-course corrections, by entering a mode of 3-axis stabilization, fixing on the Sun and the star Canopus.

As explained by Cleomedes, Posidonius observed Canopus on but never above the horizon at Rhodes, while at Alexandria he saw it ascend as far as 7½ degrees above the horizon ( the meridian arc between the latitude of the two locales is actually 5 degrees 14 minutes ).

Posidonius's method for calculating the circumference of the earth, relied on the Horizontal coordinate system | altitude of the star Canopus

He took a piece of rock-star mica and placed it on the sky, and it became, known by Bilagáana as Canopus.

The remaining vessels formed Cradock ’ s west coast squadron which was reinforced by HMS Canopus which finally arrived on 18 October.

Cradock's later request for HMS Defence to rejoin him was denied on the grounds that Canopus was " sufficient reinforcement ".

Admiral John Fisher replaced Battenberg as First Sea Lord on 27 October, and the following day Fisher ordered Cradock not to engage von Spee without Canopus.

The official explanation of the defeat as presented to the House of Commons by Winston Churchill stated: " feeling he could not bring the enemy immediately to action as long as he kept with Canopus, he decided to attack them with his fast ships alone, in the belief that even if he himself were destroyed ... he would inflict damage on them which ... would lead to their certain subsequent destruction.

A signal from Cradock was received by Churchill on 27 October, advising his intention to leave Canopus behind, because of her slow speed, and as previously instructed to take his remaining ships in search of Spee.

Churchill replied to the signal telling Cradock that Defence was to remain on the east coast and that Cradock was considered to have sufficient forces for his task, making no comment about his plan to abandon Canopus.

On that date, Austin accepted an acting appointment as carpenter ( warrant officer grade ) and reported on board the submarine tender Canopus then serving as a unit of the Asiatic Fleet.

When the Natives are ready, Canopus impose a " Lock " on Rohanda that links it via " astral currents " to the harmony and strength of the Canopean Empire.

In addition to Canopus, two other empires also establish a presence on the planet: their ally, Sirius from the star of the same name, and their mutual enemy, Puttiora.

The Sirians confine their activities largely to genetic experiments on the southern continents during Rohanda's prehistory ( described in Lessing's third book in the Canopus series, The Sirian Experiments ), while the Shammat of Puttiora remain dormant, waiting for opportunities to strike.

Shikasta, and the Canopus in Argos series as a whole, fall into the category of soft science fiction (" space fiction " in Lessing's own words ) due to their focus on characterization and social and cultural issues, and the de-emphasis of science and technology.

Further criticism of the Canopus series followed, which included this comment by New York Times critic John Leonard: " ne of the many sins for which the 20th century will be held accountable is that it has discouraged Mrs. Lessing ... She now propagandizes on behalf of our insignificance in the cosmic razzmatazz.

Thelma J. Shinn in her book, Worlds Within Women: Myth and Mythmaking in Fantastic Literature by Women described the struggle between Canopus and Shammat, played out on Shikasta, as the " eternal struggle between good and evil ", and the " Degenerative Disease " that strikes Shikasta as a metaphor for the original sin.

Around 14000 AD when Vega is only 4 degrees from the North Pole, Canopus is only 8 degrees from the South Pole and is, thus circumpolar on the latitude of Bali ( 8 deg S ).

Another Serapeum was located at Canopus, in the Nile delta near Alexandria.

A ruined ancient Egyptian port named Canopus lies near the mouth of the Nile, site of the Battle of the Nile.

Canopus ( also: Canobus ) was an Ancient Egyptian coastal town, located in the Nile Delta.

His master erected a monument to him at the mouth of the River Nile, around which the town of Canopus later developed.

* The first Canopus was an 80-gun third rate French ship of the line launched in 1797, captured at the Battle of the Nile, and commissioned into the Royal Navy.

Two miles east of Canopus was the famous Pharaonic temple of Manouthin, afterwards destroyed by monks, and a church on the same spot dedicated to the Four Evangelists.