Rastaban

What this is

Rastaban is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 2.79.

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

2.79

right ascension

262.6082°

declination

52.3014°

proper motion

-15.59, +11.57 mas, yr