Paikauhale

What this is

Paikauhale is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 2.82.

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

2.82

right ascension

248.9706°

declination

-28.2160°

proper motion

-8.59, -22.5 mas, yr