47 Capricorni is a variable star located around 1,170[2] light years from the Sun in the southern constellation Capricornus,[7] near the northern border with Aquarius.

This object is visible to the naked eye as a dim, red-hued point of light with an apparent visual magnitude that varies between 5.90 and 6.14.

[6] In 1963, Alan William James Cousins announced that 47 Capricorni is a variable star.

[5] It is a semiregular variable star of subtype SRb with a period of 30.592 days and a maximum brightness of 5.9 magnitude.

[4] With the supply of hydrogen at its core exhausted, the star has expanded to around 102[2] times the Sun's radius.