It is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.95.
[2] The primary component is an aging red giant with a stellar classification of M0 III.
[4] With the supply of hydrogen at its core exhausted, the star has cooled and expanded to 37 times the Sun's radius.
It is radiating 295 times the luminosity of the Sun from its swollen photosphere at an effective temperature of 3,915 K,[1] giving it a reddish hue.
It has a visual magnitude of 11.9 and is located at an angular separation of 23.6″ from the primary along a position angle of 159°, as of 2014.