It is visible to the naked eye as a dim, orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.31.
[2] The object is drifting closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −25 km/s.
[3] This is an evolved giant star with a stellar classification of K3.5 III,[2] having exhausted the supply of hydrogen at it its core and expanded to 35[1] times the Sun's radius.
It serves as a spectral standard for stars of its particular class.
[7] This star is radiating 334[1] times the luminosity of the Sun from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,070 K.[4]