Zaurak

What this is

Zaurak is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 2.97.

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

2.97

right ascension

59.5074°

declination

-13.5085°

proper motion

+60.51, -111.34 mas, yr