Mintaka

What this is

Mintaka is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 2.25.

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

2.25

right ascension

83.0017°

declination

-0.2991°

proper motion

+1.67, +0.56 mas, yr