Menkent

What this is

Menkent is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 2.06.

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

2.06

right ascension

211.6706°

declination

-36.3700°

proper motion

-519.29, -517.87 mas, yr