Achernar

What this is

Achernar is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 0.45.

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

0.45

right ascension

24.4285°

declination

-57.2368°

proper motion

+88.02, -40.08 mas, yr