Mirzam

What this is

Mirzam is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 1.98.

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

1.98

right ascension

95.6749°

declination

-17.9559°

proper motion

-3.45, -0.47 mas, yr