Kochab

What this is

Kochab is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 2.07.

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

2.07

right ascension

222.6764°

declination

74.1555°

proper motion

-32.29, +11.91 mas, yr