The designation comes from the star catalogue of John Flamsteed, first published in 1712.

It can be viewed with the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude of 5.33.

[1] Based upon an annual parallax shift of 3.20 mas as seen from Earth's orbit, it is located at a distance of around 310 parsecs (1,000 ly).

It is moving closer to the Sun with a heliocentric radial velocity of −17.56 km/s.

[6] There is a magnitude 9.96 companion located at an angular separation of 112.6 arcseconds along a position angle of 297°, as of 2013.