Bellatrix

What this is

Bellatrix is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 1.64.

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

1.64

right ascension

81.2828°

declination

6.3497°

proper motion

-8.75, -13.28 mas, yr