Canopus (disambiguation)

Canopus may refer to:

• Canopus (or Alpha Carinae), the brightest star in the southern constellation of Carina
• Canopus, Egypt, an ancient Egyptian city in the Nile Delta
• Canopus (mythology), in Homeric myth, the pilot of King Menelaus's ship
• Canopus (rocket), an Argentine sounding rocket
• Canopus Corporation, a manufacturer of video editing cards and video editing software
• HMS Canopus, two ships of the Royal Navy
• USS Canopus, a ship of the United States Navy
• Canopus (nuclear test) was the name given to the first test of the French hydrogen bomb, in 1968, with a yield of 2.8 megatons
• Canopus Lake, a lake in Clarence Fahnestock State Park in the USA
• Canopus in Argos, a series of space fiction by Doris Lessing
• Canopic jar, ancient Egyptian vessel for storing organs removed by mummification procedure
• Canopus, a Japanese drum company.