Hamal

What this is

Hamal is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 2.01.

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

2.01

right ascension

31.7934°

declination

23.4624°

proper motion

+190.73, -145.77 mas, yr