It is visible to the naked eye as a white-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.46.
[2] 15 Ursae Majoris is a suspected member of the Castor stellar kinematic group, a 200-million-year-old association of co-moving stars.
[10] According to Eggleton and Tokovinin (2008), this is a suspected binary star system with an orbital period of 4.9 days and an eccentricity of 0.2.
[5] The primary is metallic-lined (Am) star, meaning it has unusually strong absorption lines of metals in its spectrum.
[3] With τ, h, υ Ursae Majoris, φ, θ and e it composed the Arabic asterism Sarīr Banāt al-Na'sh, the Throne of the daughters of Na'sh, and Al-Haud, the Pond.