Cebalrai

What this is

Cebalrai is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 2.76.

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

2.76

right ascension

265.8681°

declination

4.5673°

proper motion

-40.67, +158.8 mas, yr