Zubenelgenubi

What this is

Zubenelgenubi is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 2.75.

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

2.75

right ascension

222.7196°

declination

-16.0418°

proper motion

-105.69, -69 mas, yr