Cursa

What this is

Cursa is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 2.78.

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

2.78

right ascension

76.9624°

declination

-5.0864°

proper motion

-83.39, -75.44 mas, yr