Nu Capricorni or ν Capricorni, formally named Alshat /ˈælʃæt/,[11] is a star in the southern constellation of Capricornus. It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +4.76.[2]

Characteristics

Nu Capricorni is 6.6 degrees north of the ecliptic and so is within the margin of occultations of few if any planets but is well within that of the Moon.[12] The celestial latitude of either of the Alpha Capricorni main stars is about 6.93 degrees by comparison.[13]

The star is a blue-white hued B-type main-sequence or subgiant star with an apparent magnitude of +4.77. It is calculated to be a distance of 253 light-years from the Sun based on parallax.

It has an optical companion, named Nu Capricorni B, a magnitude 11.8 star at an angular separation of 54.1 arcseconds from the primary.[4] Gaia Data Release 2 shows the companion to be much further away from Earth, forming a binary system only in the line-of-sight.[14]

Nomenclature

ν Capricorni, Latinised to Nu Capricorni, is the system's Bayer designation.

The star bore the traditional name Alshat, from the Arabic الشاة aš-šā[t], meaning 'the sheep' that was to be slaughtered by the adjacent Beta¹ Capricorni (Dabih).[15] In 2016, the IAU organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN)[16] to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. It approved the name Alshat on 30 June 2017 and it is now so included in the List of IAU-approved Star Names.[11]

References

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  10. ^ "nu. Cap". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2017-05-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  11. ^ a b "Naming Stars". IAU.org. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
  12. ^ White, Nathaniel M.; Feierman, Barry H. (September 1987), "A Catalog of Stellar Angular Diameters Measured by Lunar Occultation", Astronomical Journal, 94: 751, Bibcode:1987AJ.....94..751W, doi:10.1086/114513.
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  14. ^ Brown, A. G. A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 616. A1. arXiv:1804.09365. Bibcode:2018A&A...616A...1G. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833051. Gaia DR2 record for this source at VizieR.
  15. ^ Allen, R. H. (1963). Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning (Reprint ed.). New York: Dover Publications Inc. p. 142. ISBN 0-486-21079-0. Retrieved 2010-12-12.
  16. ^ "IAU Working Group on Star Names (WGSN)". Retrieved 22 May 2016.
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