Acamar

What this is

Acamar is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 2.88.

What it governs

The catalogue holds this star's position and its own motion, not a body of lore about it — a star's apparent place is its J2000 position carried forward and referred to the ecliptic of the date, exactly as a planet's is.

Correspondences

magnitude

2.88

right ascension

44.5653°

declination

-40.3047°

proper motion

-53.53, +25.71 mas, yr