Alnasl

What this is

Alnasl is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 2.98.

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

2.98

right ascension

271.4520°

declination

-30.4241°

proper motion

-55.75, -181.53 mas, yr