It is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +5.30.
[3] The distance to this star, as determined from an annual parallax shift of 13.50±0.34 mas,[2] is approximately 242 light years.
14 CMI has a relatively large proper motion, traversing the celestial sphere at the rate of 0.188 arcsecond/year.
[5] This is an evolved G-type giant star with a stellar classification of G8 IIIb.
It is radiating roughly 48 times the Sun's luminosity from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 5,070 K.[5]