Skat

What this is

Skat is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 3.27.

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

3.27

right ascension

343.6626°

declination

-15.8208°

proper motion

-44.08, -24.81 mas, yr