Sharjah

What this is

Sharjah is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 1.34.

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

1.34

right ascension

243.1741°

declination

-18.8755°

proper motion

+24.12, -210.89 mas, yr