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.