Nunki

What this is

Nunki is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 2.05.

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

2.05

right ascension

283.8164°

declination

-26.2967°

proper motion

+13.87, -52.65 mas, yr