Aldhanab

What this is

Aldhanab 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

328.4822°

declination

-37.3649°

proper motion

+95.88, -12.1 mas, yr