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Canes Venatici /ˈkeɪniːz vɪˈnætɪsaɪ/ is one of the 88 official modern constellations.
It is a small northern constellation that was created by Johannes Hevelius in the 17th century.
Its name is Latin for 'hunting dogs', and the constellation is often depicted in illustrations as representing the dogs of Boötes the Herdsman, a neighboring constellation.
Cor Caroli is the constellation's brightest star, with an apparent magnitude of 2.
9.
La Superba （Y CVn） is one of the reddest naked-eye stars and one of the brightest carbon stars.
The Whirlpool Galaxy is a spiral galaxy tilted face-on to observers on Earth, and was the first galaxy whose spiral nature was discerned.
In addition, TON 618 has one of the most massive black holes with the mass of 66 billion solar masses.
Canes Venatici as depicted in Hevelius's star atlas.
Note that, per the conventions of the time, the image is mirrored.
Canes Venatici can be seen in the orientation it appears to the eyes in this 1825 star chart from Urania's Mirror.
The stars of Canes Venatici are not bright.
In classical times, they were listed by Ptolemy as unfigured stars below the constellation Ursa Major in his star catalogue.
In medieval times, the identification of these stars with the dogs of Boötes arose through a mistranslation: some of Boötes's stars were traditionally described as representing the club （Greek: κολλοροβος, kollorobos） of Boötes.
When the Greek astronomer Ptolemy's Almagest was translated from Greek to Arabic, the translator Hunayn ibn Ishaq did not know the Greek word and rendered it as a similar-sounding compound Arabic word for a kind of weapon,
writing العصا ذات الكُلاب‎ al-'aşā dhāt al-kullāb, which means 'the staff having a hook'.
When the Arabic text was later translated into Latin, the translator, Gerard of Cremona, mistook كُلاب‎ k...

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