Albireo

What this is

Albireo is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 3.37.

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

3.37

right ascension

292.6804°

declination

27.9597°

proper motion

-7.09, -5.63 mas, yr