Sabik

What this is

Sabik is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 2.43.

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

2.43

right ascension

257.5945°

declination

-15.7249°

proper motion

+41.16, +97.65 mas, yr