Baten Kaitos

What this is

Baten Kaitos is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 3.74.

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

3.74

right ascension

27.8651°

declination

-10.3350°

proper motion

+38.78, -38.04 mas, yr