Talk:Sirius/to do

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Aristotle might have referred to the double star in his Meteorologica, citing African sources:

"... some of the fixed stars too get a tail. For this we must not only accept the authority of the Egyptians who assert it, but we have ourselves observed the fact. For a star in the thigh of the Dog had a tail, though a faint one. If you fixed your sight on it its light was dim, but if you just glanced at it, it appeared brighter."

However, this reference has been attributed to M41 or a train of stars near Delta Canis Majoris.^[1]