Izar

What this is

Izar is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 2.35.

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

2.35

right ascension

221.2468°

declination

27.0742°

proper motion

-50.65, +20 mas, yr