Xamidimura
What this is
Xamidimura 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
- 252.9676°
- declination
- -38.0474°
- proper motion
- -8.84, -21.6 mas, yr
Where this comes from
- Hipparcos catalogue (ICRS, J2000)