Caph

What this is

Caph is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 2.28.

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

2.28

right ascension

2.2945°

declination

59.1498°

proper motion

+523.39, -180.42 mas, yr