Nu<sup>2</sup> Coronae Borealis is a solitary, orange-hued star located in the northern constellation of Corona Borealis. It is faintly visible to the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude of +5.4. Based upon an annual parallax shift of , it is located roughly 571 light years from the Sun. At that distance, the visual magnitude is diminished by an extinction of 0.1 due to interstellar dust.
This is an evolved red giant star with a stellar classification of K5 III. Nu<sup>2</sup> Coronae Borealis is 64 times bigger than the Sun, radiating 880 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 3,940 K.
The star ý<sup>1</sup> Coronae Borealis lies borth of ý<sup>2</sup>. ý<sup>1</sup> is also a red giant with almost the same apparent magnitude, but is a more luminous asymptotic giant branch star.