26 Vulpeculae is a close binary star[5] system in the northern constellation of Vulpecula,[9] around 644 light years away from the Sun.
[1] It is a challenge to view with the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude of 6.40.
[2] The star is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −63 km/s,[4] and is expected to come within 225 light-years in around 2.6 million years.
[2] This is a single-lined spectroscopic binary with an orbital period of 11 days and an eccentricity of 0.28.
[5] The visible component is a suspected chemically peculiar star[10] with a stellar classification of A5 III,[3] suggesting this is an evolved giant star.