Sadalmelik

What this is

Sadalmelik is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 2.95.

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

2.95

right ascension

331.4460°

declination

-0.3198°

proper motion

+17.9, -9.93 mas, yr