Naos

What this is

Naos is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 2.21.

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

2.21

right ascension

120.8960°

declination

-40.0031°

proper motion

-30.82, +16.77 mas, yr