Visible at latitudes between +90° and −50°. Best visible at 21:00 (9 p.m.) during the month of June. Other designations: Arctophylax
Boötes, pronounced with both 'O's as 'boötez',[1] is one of the 88 modern constellations in the northern sky. The name is from the Greek word Βοώτης, which means herdsman – someone who takes care of animals.
The constellation's shape is like a kite. Boötes has the third brightest star in the night sky, called Arcturus (α Bootis).[2] The astronomer Ptolemy listed it in the 2nd century when he made a list of 48 constellations.[3]
α Bootis (Arcturus) is the brightest and most important star of the constellation, with a magnitude of -0.04, the 3rd brightest star of the sky. It is an orange giant star
β Bootis (Nekkar), yellow giant with magnitude 3.49 and 219 light years from the Earth
y Bootis (Ceginus), Delta Scuti variable with magnitude 3,04