Nu1 Boötis (ν1 Boötis) is an orange-hued star in the northern constellation of Boötes. It has an apparent visual magnitude of +5.02,[2] which indicates the star is faintly visible to the naked eye. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 3.35 mas as seen from Earth,[1] it is located roughly 970 light years distant from the Sun. At that distance, the visual magnitude of the star is diminished by an extinction of 0.13 due to interstellar dust.[10]
Ptolemy considered Nu1 Boötis to be shared by Hercules, and Bayer assigned it a designation in both constellations: Nu1 Boötis (ν1 Boo) and Psi1 Herculis (ψ1 Her). When the modern constellation boundaries were fixed in 1930, the latter designation dropped from use.[13]
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^ abKeenan, Philip C.; McNeil, Raymond C. (1989), "The Perkins catalog of revised MK types for the cooler stars", Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 71: 245, Bibcode:1989ApJS...71..245K, doi:10.1086/191373.
^Schiavon, Ricardo P. (July 2007), "Population Synthesis in the Blue. IV. Accurate Model Predictions for Lick Indices and UBV Colors in Single Stellar Populations", The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 171 (1): 146–205, arXiv:astro-ph/0611464, Bibcode:2007ApJS..171..146S, doi:10.1086/511753, S2CID13946698.