Acrux

What this is

Acrux is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 1.33.

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

1.33

right ascension

186.6496°

declination

-63.0991°

proper motion

-35.37, -14.73 mas, yr