Nihal

What this is

Nihal is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 2.83.

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

2.83

right ascension

82.0613°

declination

-20.7594°

proper motion

-5.03, -85.92 mas, yr