Canopus is the star Alpha Carinae belonging to the constellation of Carina (The Keel), and is the second brightest star, behind Sirius, that can be seen in the night sky. Its positioning towards the South, makes it appear on the horizon in the middle of the winter nights, advancing its ortho to the early hours of the night in the month of February. The traditional name canopus comes from ancient Greek Κάνωβος (Kanobos). Its name comes from the mythological Canopus, who was navigator of Menelaus, king of Sparta.The brightness and location of Canopus far from the ecliptic make it popular for space navigation. Many spacecraft carry a special camera known as a "Canopus Star Tracker."
In many cultures of North Africa, Canopus is directly related to the rainy season, and it is about the first days of February when at sunset it appears on the horizon, indicating the end of the rainy season and the beginning of the flowering of fruit trees; Hence the importance for Aboriginal societies that they depended fully on agriculture and livestock for their subsistence. In Tenerife the relationship of the Guanches with Canopus has been dated, which they called Chaxiraxi. The island of La Palma gathers almost fifty rock stations with coincidences of alignment to the star Canopus, both in its ortho at dusk, and in its sunset by the sea.
A luminaire that deserved the first place among those that constituted the ancient Constellation of the Great Ship Argos, and that for that reason was credited with the letter Alpha of Bayer, which now retains that it belongs to the broken Carina, the keel of the legendary ship of the Argonauts, which served for Jason to travel in search of the Golden Fleece, a star with a corona radiating at ten times the temperature of the Sun. It is Alpha Carinae, known as Canopus, the pilot of Menelaus, the ancient port city of the disappeared Empire of the Pharaohs, or the southeastern façade of the Kaaba, oriented towards the place where the star appears above the horizon. There is no doubt about the astral or light symbolism to which the image of the Virgin of Candelaria is associated, as well recorded by the illustrious Viana (1604): "Dixeron ser del cielo alguna estrella / En traxe de mujer hermosa y bella" (They claimed to be from heaven some star / In beautiful and beautiful woman's costume).

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