Alhena

What this is

Alhena is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 1.93.

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

1.93

right ascension

99.4280°

declination

16.3993°

proper motion

-2.04, -66.92 mas, yr