Kaus Media

What this is

Kaus Media is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 2.72.

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

2.72

right ascension

275.2485°

declination

-29.8281°

proper motion

+29.96, -26.38 mas, yr