Rigel

What this is

Rigel is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 0.18.

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

0.18

right ascension

78.6345°

declination

-8.2016°

proper motion

+1.87, -0.56 mas, yr