Cor Caroli

What this is

Cor Caroli is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 2.89.

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

2.89

right ascension

194.0069°

declination

38.3184°

proper motion

-233.43, +54.98 mas, yr