Nu Cancri

Nu Cancri, Latinized from ν Cancri, is a binary star in the zodiac constellation of Cancer. It is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +5.46. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 8.31 mas as seen from the Earth, the star is located roughly 390 light years from the Sun.
This is a single-lined spectroscopic binary system with an orbital period of 3.8 years and an eccentricity of 0.35. The primary, component A, is a white-hued A-type giant star with a stellar classification of A0 III. It is a magnetic Ap star with a field strength of , showing abundance peculiarities in strontium, chromium, and mercury. The star has 2.8 times the mass of the Sun and is radiating 93 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 10,250 K.