Canopus

What this is

Canopus is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude -0.62.

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

-0.62

right ascension

95.9880°

declination

-52.6957°

proper motion

+19.99, +23.67 mas, yr