Eltanin

What this is

Eltanin is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 2.24.

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

2.24

right ascension

269.1515°

declination

51.4889°

proper motion

-8.52, -23.05 mas, yr