Elnath

What this is

Elnath is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 1.65.

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

1.65

right ascension

81.5730°

declination

28.6075°

proper motion

+23.28, -174.22 mas, yr