Pherkad

What this is

Pherkad is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 3.

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

3

right ascension

230.1822°

declination

71.8340°

proper motion

-18.03, +17.68 mas, yr