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Decan 10: Steer by the Star You Can't See
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Decan 10: Steer by the Star You Can't See

Canopus is the navigator's star, second brightest in the sky and powerful not because it is close but because it is a fixed reference far beyond you. Decan 10 is navigation and purpose: finding a heading when you have lost your bearings, building the structure that holds the course under load, and steering by a star that stays below your own horizon.

Canopus: Decan 10 - Navigation & Purpose (June 18-27)
Books 14 min

Canopus: Decan 10 - Navigation & Purpose (June 18-27)

The photons entering your eyes right now left Canopus in 1715. This yellow-white supergiant is the second brightest star in all the sky, yet most people in the Northern Hemisphere have never seen it. Named for a helmsman who died mid-voyage, still used by NASA spacecraft to fix their orientation in space, Canopus is a navigator star in the keel of a legendary ship.