Alnitak

What this is

Alnitak is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 1.74.

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

1.74

right ascension

85.1897°

declination

-1.9426°

proper motion

+3.99, +2.54 mas, yr