Yed Prior

What this is

Yed Prior is a fixed star the chart engine carries, at magnitude 2.73.

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

2.73

right ascension

243.5864°

declination

-3.6943°

proper motion

-45.83, -142.91 mas, yr