Matar

What this is

Matar is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 2.93.

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

2.93

right ascension

340.7506°

declination

30.2212°

proper motion

+13.11, -26.11 mas, yr