Peacock

What this is

Peacock is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 1.94.

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

1.94

right ascension

306.4119°

declination

-56.7351°

proper motion

+7.71, -86.15 mas, yr