Scheat

What this is

Scheat is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 2.44.

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

2.44

right ascension

345.9436°

declination

28.0828°

proper motion

+187.76, +137.61 mas, yr