Zosma

What this is

Zosma is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 2.56.

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

2.56

right ascension

168.5271°

declination

20.5237°

proper motion

+143.31, -130.43 mas, yr