Markeb

What this is

Markeb is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 2.47.

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

2.47

right ascension

140.5284°

declination

-55.0107°

proper motion

-10.72, +11.24 mas, yr