[11] It is visible to the naked eye on a dark night with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.49.

[2] The distance to this star, as determined from parallax measurements,[1] is around 280 light years.

As a result of Earth's axial precession, it crossed over to the southern hemisphere in December 1923.

[6] This is an evolved A-type giant star with a stellar classification of A0 III.

[7] It radiates 90 times the solar luminosity[6] from its outer atmosphere at an effective temperature of 9,984 K.[8] Alpha Sextantis is nearing the end of its life as a main-sequence star; it is around 385[6] million years old with a projected rotational velocity of 21 km/s.