Dubhe

What this is

Dubhe is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 1.81.

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

1.81

right ascension

165.9320°

declination

61.7510°

proper motion

-136.46, -35.25 mas, yr