Alniyat

What this is

Alniyat is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 2.9.

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

2.9

right ascension

245.2971°

declination

-25.5928°

proper motion

-10.03, -18.03 mas, yr