Wasat
What this is
Wasat is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 3.52.
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
- 3.52
- right ascension
- 110.0307°
- declination
- 21.9823°
- proper motion
- -18.72, -7.76 mas, yr
Where this comes from
- Hipparcos catalogue (ICRS, J2000)