Pollux

What this is

Pollux is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 1.16.

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

1.16

right ascension

116.3290°

declination

28.0262°

proper motion

-625.69, -45.95 mas, yr