Markab

What this is

Markab is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 2.49.

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

2.49

right ascension

346.1902°

declination

15.2053°

proper motion

+61.1, -42.56 mas, yr