Acubens

What this is

Acubens is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 4.26.

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

4.26

right ascension

134.6218°

declination

11.8577°

proper motion

+41.45, -29.22 mas, yr