Menkar

What this is

Menkar is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 2.54.

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

2.54

right ascension

45.5699°

declination

4.0897°

proper motion

-11.81, -78.76 mas, yr