Ascella

What this is

Ascella is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 2.6.

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

2.6

right ascension

285.6530°

declination

-29.8801°

proper motion

-14.1, +3.66 mas, yr