Algieba

What this is

Algieba is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 2.61.

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

2.61

right ascension

154.9931°

declination

19.8415°

proper motion

+310.77, -152.88 mas, yr