Menkalinan

What this is

Menkalinan is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 1.9.

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

1.9

right ascension

89.8822°

declination

44.9474°

proper motion

-56.41, -0.88 mas, yr