Gacrux

What this is

Gacrux is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 1.59.

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

1.59

right ascension

187.7915°

declination

-57.1132°

proper motion

+27.94, -264.33 mas, yr